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Winter at Richmond
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1938
painting oil paint canvas
Winter at Richmond
support: 508 × 686 mm
frame: 665 × 840 × 70 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1938
<p><b>N05326</b> WINTER IN RICHMOND 1938
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<br/>Inscr. ‘P. Connard’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 20×27 (51×69).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase at Barbizon House 1938.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Barbizon House, April–May 1938 (3), as ‘Early Spring’; R.A., 1939 (124), as ‘Winter in Richmond’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> <i>Barbizon House Record</i>, No.33, 1938, repr.; H. Granville Fell, ‘Some Topics of the Moment: Mr Connard's Spring Songs of Richmond’ in <i>Connoisseur</i>, CI, 1938, p.266, repr.</p>
<p>The picture was painted in March 1938 from the balcony of the artist's house, Cholmondeley Lodge, Richmond, Surrey, where he lived from 1932 until his death. According to Granville Fell, <i>loc. cit.</i>, ‘Some of his latest <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvases</span></a> have been painted during the “unwonted halcyon days of March [1938]” on the banks of the Thames at Richmond.’</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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