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Landscape Layton
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
painting oil paint board
Landscape, Layton
support: 635 × 756 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> 1940
<p><b>N05341</b> LANDSCAPE, LAYTON 1935
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Bissill’ b.r.
<br/>Oil on hardboard, 25×29 3/4 (63×75·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
(?) <i>George Bissill, R. O. Dunlop, Basil Jonzen, Rowland Suddaby</i>, Redfern Gallery, May–June 1939 (4), as ‘Layton’; C.A.S. tour, <i>British Painting Today</i>, 1940 (43); R.A., 1944 (26).</p>
<p>According to the artist, ‘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/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>Landscape</span></a> (Layton) was painted in 1935 from several sketches, so doesn't resemble any actual place. The sketches I made several miles from Andover, Hampshire, near a farm owned by a man named Layton, so that's how the Landscape got its name Layton’ (letter of 18 January 1960).</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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