
India Ross
Associate Specialist



£3,000 - £5,000

Associate Specialist

Senior Specialist
Provenance
The Artist, from whom acquired by
Josephine Neild (née Baker) in 1920, and thence by family descent to the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.
Josephine and her husband, Ralph Neild, lived in Burma from 1919 to 1923. Whilst aboard a mail steamer for Pagau, they encountered Ernest and Dod Procter and purchased the present lot. In a letter from Ralph to his mother dated 14 November 1920 he writes: 'On board we fell victims to the Procters pictures & spent our wedding present on two of them, which should be a great decoration in our house when we have one. Josey got one of a group of boys & women round a well in a banana garden while I bought one of the interior of Thibaw's palace in Mandalay. They are very nice things to spend our money upon, and pictures of Burmese subjects by real artists are very uncommon. You see countless sketches of the amateur kind, but I have never met with anything as nice as ours. Mrs Procter had painted one beautiful picture of a forest, mist & mountain scene at Lashio in the Shan Hills which delighted me particularly but it was too large to carry about in Burma and too expensive for our shallow purses'.