
Thomas Seaman
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Provenance
The collection of Mr George Goodiwiss of Derwent House, Weston, Bath and Paignton, Devon (purchased from the artist).
His sale, Christie's, London, 16 April 1920, lot 123 (210gns to Sampson).
With W. W. Sampson, The British Galleries, London.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 12 June 1985, lot 79.
With David Messum Fine Art, Marlow.
Private collection, UK (acquired from the above).
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1889, no. 613.
Bristol Art Gallery (loaned by G. Woodiwiss).
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath (loaned by G. Woodiwiss).
Literature
Royal Academy Pictures, supplement to The Magazine of Art, 1889, illustrated.
Pall Mall Gazette Extra, no. 48, 1889, p. 50, illustrated.
H. Blackburn, Academy Notes, 1889, p. 54, illustrated.
Cooper, 1890, vol. II, pp. 225 and 322.
Strand Magazine, vol. VII, January to June 1894, p. 239, illustrated.
Sunday Strand, vol. V, January to June 1902, p. 278, illustrated.
S. J. G. Hall and J. Clutton-Brock, Two Hundred Years of British Farm Livestock, 1989, illustrated on the front cover.
Kenneth Westwood, Thomas Sidney Cooper, His Life and Work, David Leathers, 2011, no. O.1889.3, vol. I, p. 451, and vol. II, pl. 318, p. 436, illustrated.
At first glance the animals appear scattered around the yard, the majority lying down, but the overall composition provides evidence of Cooper's ability to carefully arrange and unite the separate groups of animals into a harmonious production taking the eye of the viewer from a single sheep in the foreground up through the picture to the tree tops.
Westwood, p. 451.