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"A Spinney Painswick" by Alfred Thornton
Ref: 3813
An original pencil and brown wash watercolour sketch of Gloucestershire landscape by artist Alfred Thornton (1863-1939) dating to around the beginning of the century. It is signed and has impressive label on the back of the original and very high quality for the time cased frame. The label gives us the title of the work in the hand of the artist, his address apparently, the owner's name & address "Rudge House" in Painswick, and the address of the framer in Hamstead Rd Camden, the same framer used by Walter Sickert who Thornton knew. A proto-Modernist now barely known Thornton was educated at the Slade, had associations with Euston Rd and Fitzroy painting groups, had travelled in France for example with Roger Fry - in his later yrs was mostly associated with the Cheltenham-Stroud area, and at the time this work was done this area was a mecca for ruralist philosophers, poets, furniture makers and so on. A nice find which could easily be in the Tate archives.
English c.1910
H: 52cm (20.5in)
W: 43cm (16.9in)
D: 1.5cm (0.6in)
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