Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
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Chantrey Bequest
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/henry-lamb-1456" aria-label="More by Henry Lamb" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Henry Lamb</a>
Death a Peasant
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1944
actions: expressive
adults
birth to death
body
death
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
family
grief
head / face
husband
man
people
society
weeping
wife
woman
painting oil paint canvas
1 May 2018 – 30 September 2019
2019-09-30
1 May 2018 – 30 September 2018
2018-09-30
2018-05-01
The Salisbury Museum (Salisbury, UK)
http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk
1 May 2019 – 30 September 2019
2019-09-30
2019-05-01
Poole Museum (Poole, UK)
2018-05-01
Henry Lamb
Loan-out
Death of a Peasant
support: 368 × 318 mm
frame: 487 × 427 × 57 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> 1944
<p><b>N05630</b> DEATH OF A PEASANT 1911
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 14 1/2×12 1/2 (37×32).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the Leicester Galleries 1944.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Sir Michael Sadler, probably bought 1911.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
19 Fitzroy Street, <i>c.</i> 1911; <i>International Exhibition</i>, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1925 (153); <i>British Painting since Whistler</i>, National Gallery, 1940 (147); <i>Selected</i> <i>Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from the Collection of the late Sir Michael Sadler</i>, Leicester Galleries, January–February 1944 (121, repr.); R.A., 1944 (608).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Frank Rutter, <i>Some Contemporary Artists</i>, 1922, p.170.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Kennedy, 1924, pl.1; <i>Studio</i>, CXXXVIII, 1949, p.66.</p>
<p>Based on a scene witnessed by the artist in Brittany where he stayed 1910–11, and painted on his return to England in 1911. The woman was the mother of ten children, the youngest of whom was two years old. No.T.102 is inspired by the same event (letter of 24 August 1956). The artist thought that it was on show for some time at 19 Fitzroy Street, where Sickert was good enough to vaunt it to prospective purchasers, and that it was probably there that Sir Michael Sadler bought it (letter of 22 November 1955), but there is also a label of Carfax &amp; Co. on the back. Lamb had a studio at 8 Fitzroy Street from 1909 to 1911.</p>
<p>A second version was painted soon after and was, according to the artist, the first to be exhibited (at the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/n/new-english-art-club" title="Glossary definition for 'New English Art Club'"><span>N.E.A.C</span></a>., summer 1911 (198), where it was bought by Sir Augustus Daniel); it ‘was a technical experiment - glazing over 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/m/monochrome" title="Glossary definition for 'Monochrome'"><span>monochrome</span></a> grisaille’ (letter of 22 November 1955). It was also in the C.A.S. exhibition at Manchester, winter 1911 (61), and the Goupil Gallery, 1913 (33).</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
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2004-10-08T00:00:00
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actions: expressive adults birth to death body death emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas family grief head / face husband man people society weeping wife woman