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PROVENANCE:
Sale, Christie's 9 December 1932, Property of Mrs Methuen, 'A Cottage under the Cotswolds' 12 x 9 ½, bought by Newman for £15 15s
with Leggatt Brothers
Priave collection, UK
Helen Allingham's watercolours of West Country subjects can be pin-pointed to the latter part of her career. Since she was widowed in 1889 and living in Hampstead, Helen had to paint six days a week to provide for her three children. Her hard work paid off and her watercolours were representing Great Britain at international exhibitions, and there was a great demand for her paintings of the English countryside by dealers and collectors alike. In the late 1890s she visited Gloucestershire to paint buildings that remained unrestored. It was an area not unfamiliar to the artist. As a young art student in the late 1860s she painted a view of Gloucester cathedral, another of Llanthony Priory and sketched around Whittington, when she visited her aunt in Prestbury.
We are grateful to Annabel Watts for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.