Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
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Will It Rain
Presented by John Maddocks 1907
actions: postures and motions
adults
animals: birds
architecture
chicken
clothing and personal items
cottage
England
England, South East
England, Southern
features
gate
individuals: female
named individuals
objects
people
places
portraits
residential
South Harting
standing
Sussex - non-specific
Sussex, West
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
umbrella
wall
Wallder, Charlotte
window
woman, old
painting oil paint canvas
Will It Rain?
support: 457 × 356 mm
Presented by John Maddocks 1907
<p><b>N02119</b> WILL IT RAIN? 1887
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<br/>Inscr. ‘J Charles. 1887’, the ‘J’ and ‘C’ in monogram, b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 18×14 (45×35).
<br/>Presented by John Maddocks 1907.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Grosvenor Gallery, summer 1888 (199).
<br/><i>Repr:</i>
<i>Art Journal</i>, 1908, p.146; <i>Tate Gallery Illustrations</i>, 1928, pl.70.</p>
<p>The model is said to have been ‘Old Charlotte Wallder’ who lived opposite the church at South Harting, a village near Petersfield, Sussex, where the artist was living when this picture was painted. He first met John Maddocks of Bradford in 1879. Maddocks became an enthusiastic patron and introduced him to many prospective sitters in the north of England; works by Charles in his collection were sold at Christie's on 30 April 1910.</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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Catalogue entry
2004-07-16T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults animals: birds architecture chicken clothing and personal items cottage England England, South East England, Southern features gate individuals: female named individuals objects people places portraits residential South Harting standing Sussex - non-specific Sussex, West townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions umbrella wall Wallder, Charlotte window woman, old