Painting of a woman with a child, Robert Payton Reid
no 256
Description
A painting of a woman with a little girl, in the background a brick building, on the right side gardening equipment, and on the left a tall tree. The whole thing against a background of lush greenery and grass. The woman in a shirt and a long dress, over which she has an apron tied, the girl tightly hugs her mother, holding her hand tightly, dressed in a short dress and shoes on her feet. The whole thing is enclosed in a gilded frame, decorated on the perimeter with rocaille patterns and acanthus leaves.
Oil on canvas, signed in the lower left corner “R Payton Reid ”
On the back a fragment of the label, most likely of the studio that was involved in framing paintings.
ROBERT PAYTON REID – He was born in Edinburgh on October 22, 1859 and educated at George Watson’s College. His artistic talent was appreciated from an early age, and thanks to his father’s encouragement he attended the Board of Manufacturers’ School of Design, and then enrolled in classes at the Royal Scottish Academy. After training locally, he travelled regularly to Italy, the South of France and Paris, where he enrolled at the Académie Julien under Bourguereau. Returning to Britain, Reid spent time in London, working on a series of large-scale works on classical subjects. Throughout his early career, Reid exhibited many works imitating the popular neoclassical genre of Greek and mythological subject matter. However, his interest in classical subject matter never deviated from his admiration for the beauty of the Scottish landscape. The development of European realism towards the end of the century becomes evident in many of his landscapes. In 1916, he married Emily Smith and briefly settled in St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, where he painted many delightful pictures of rural villages in the Home Countries. Whether the subject was his beloved Scotland, the rugged slopes of Capri or the lowlands of Holland, nature was always the source of his art and remained so until his death in 1945.
Size
96 x 68 (112 x 84) cm
Price
8900 zł