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Kensington Gardens Vicinity Pond
Presented by Cyril Andrade 1928
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<p>Maitland's association with Whistler was through the French landscape painter Theodore Roussel, who lived in Britain from 1870 and was a close friend of Whistler. Roussel taught Maitland as a personal pupil. Maitland was an isolated artist who specialised in small-scale views of London parks, many even smaller than this and on wooden panels. They were painted on the spot, and became an obsessive subject. They were admired by Sickert, and parallel his discovery of beauty in ordinary town life.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
Kensington Gardens: Vicinity of the Pond
support: 254 × 454 mm
Presented by Cyril Andrade 1928
<p>Maitland's association with Whistler was through the French <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>landscape</span></a> painter Theodore Roussel, who lived in Britain from 1870 and was a close friend of Whistler. Roussel taught Maitland as a personal pupil. Maitland was an isolated artist who specialised in small-scale views of London parks, many even smaller than this and on wooden <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/panel" title="Glossary definition for 'Panel'"><span>panels</span></a>. They were painted on the spot, and became an obsessive subject. They were admired by Sickert, and parallel his discovery of beauty in ordinary town life.</p>
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<p><b>N04398</b> KENSINGTON GARDENS: VICINITY OF THE POND (?) 1907</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘P Maitland’ b.r. (obscure).
<br/>Canvas, 10×17 7/8 (25·5×45·5).
<br/>Presented by Cyril Andrade 1928.
<br/><i>Coll:</i>
The artist's sisters, the Misses Maitland; the artist's cousins, Mr and Mrs Murray Urquhart, 1926, from whom purchased (through the Leicester Galleries) by Cyril Andrade.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, May 1928 (40).	</p>
<p>Exhibited in 1928 as having been painted in 1907.</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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2004-07-20T00:00:00
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adults architecture England fence figure garden structures group groups Kensington, Kensington Gardens landscape park people places townscapes / man-made features UK countries and regions UK London wooded