Oil paint on mahogany
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Robert Vernon
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/george-lance-321" aria-label="More by George Lance" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">George Lance</a>
Fruit Autumn Gift
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
animals: features
autumn
basket
egg
emotions, concepts and ideas
fertility
food and drink
fruit, apple
fruit, peach
fruit, pear
fruit, pineapple
fruit, plum
fruit, raspberry
nest
objects
seasons
universal concepts
vessels and containers
<p>Lance began his career as a pupil of the history painter Haydon, but soon devoted himself almost exclusively to still life painting, becoming the leading British artist in this line. He modelled himself on seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch and Flemish painters like Jan van Huysum (1682-1749) and Jan van Os (1744-1808), but his art was underpinned by an almost obsessive study of the natural world: by 1847 he had gone through no less than three courses of anatomical dissection. He enjoyed the highest patronage, and painted the prize fruit and other horticultural produce of great houses like Woburn and Blenheim.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint mahogany
4 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
4 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
2008-10-04
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
2008-10-04
Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection
Exhibition
31 October 2012 – 15 September 2013
2013-09-15
31 October 2012 – 20 January 2013
2013-01-20
2012-10-31
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
22 February 2013 – 19 May 2013
2013-05-19
2013-02-22
CaixaForum Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
http://www3.lacaixa.es
19 June 2013 – 15 September 2013
2013-09-15
2013-06-19
CaixaForum Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2012-10-31
Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present
Loan-out
Fruit (‘The Autumn Gift’)
support: 460 × 521 mm
frame: 724 × 784 × 106 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999978" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Robert Vernon</a> 1847
<p>Lance began his career as a pupil of the history painter Haydon, but soon devoted himself almost exclusively to <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/still-life" title="Glossary definition for 'Still life'"><span>still life</span></a> <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a>, becoming the leading British artist in this line. He modelled himself on seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch and Flemish painters like Jan van Huysum (1682-1749) and Jan van Os (1744-1808), but his art was underpinned by an almost obsessive study of the natural world: by 1847 he had gone through no less than three courses of anatomical dissection. He enjoyed the highest patronage, and painted the prize fruit and other horticultural produce of great houses like Woburn and Blenheim.</p>
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animals: features autumn basket egg emotions, concepts and ideas fertility food and drink fruit, apple fruit, peach fruit, pear fruit, pineapple fruit, plum fruit, raspberry nest objects seasons universal concepts vessels and containers