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Sunshine Breeze and Blossom Lake Como
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1983
actions: postures and motions
adults
animals: insects & lower animals
animals: mammals
architecture
blossom
boat, sailing
building - non-specific
butterfly
countries and continents
donkey
features
goat
hill
Italy
lake
Lake Como
landscape
man
natural features (non-UK)
natural phenomena
pack animal
people
places
road
rocky
seasons
shadow
sitting
society
spring
sunshine
tower
townscapes / man-made features
transport: land
transport: water
wall
water: inland
weather
woman
wooded
painting oil paint canvas
Sunshine, Breeze, and Blossom: Lake Como
support: 1016 × 1283 mm
frame: 1255 × 1510 × 95 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> 1983
<p><b>N02934</b> SUNSHINE, BREEZE AND BLOSSOM: LAKE COMO <i>c.</i> 1913</p>
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<p>Inscr. with weathercock rebus and ‘L 57’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 40×50 3/4 (101·5×128).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1913.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1913 (322).</p>
<p>The artist used to spend his summer holidays in the Italian Lakes, sketching in the open air, and painted a number of similar scenes about that time (see A.J. Finberg, ‘Mr J. Walter West's <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>Landscapes</span></a>’ in <i>Studio</i>, LVIII, 1913, pp.177ff.).</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, II
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2004-09-23T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults animals: insects & lower animals animals: mammals architecture blossom boat, sailing building - non-specific butterfly countries and continents donkey features goat hill Italy lake Lake Como landscape man natural features (non-UK) natural phenomena pack animal people places road rocky seasons shadow sitting society spring sunshine tower townscapes / man-made features transport: land transport: water wall water: inland weather woman wooded