Oil paint on canvas
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Chantrey Bequest
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-ernest-albert-waterlow-584" aria-label="More by Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow</a>
Galway Gossips
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1887
actions: expressive
adults
animals: birds
animals: mammals
architecture
cottage
countries and continents
farmland
goose
hedge
Ireland
Ireland, Connacht
Ireland, Connacht, Galway
landscape
leisure and pastimes
man
mountain
mule
natural phenomena
people
places
plants and flowers
recreational activities
residential
road
smoke
smoking
talking
townscapes / man-made features
woman
painting oil paint canvas
Galway Gossips
support: 762 × 1276 mm
frame: 1122 × 1628 × 145 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> 1887
<p><b>N01596</b> GALWAY GOSSIPS <i>c.</i> 1887</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘E. A. Waterlow’ b.l.
<br/>Oil on canvas, 30×50 3/4 (76·5×128).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1887.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
R.A., 1887 (161).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Academy Notes</i>, May 1887, p.43; Sir Edward J. Poynter, <i>The National Gallery</i>, III, 1900, p.357.</p>
<p>After working in <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/newlyn-school" title="Glossary definition for 'Newlyn School'"><span>Newlyn</span></a> in the early eighties the artist paid several visits to the west coast of Galway. <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/waterlow-galway-gossips-n01596" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01596</span></a> appears to have been the first of his Irish subjects. It was followed by others up to 1889, when he exhibited ‘St MacDara's Day’.</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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Catalogue entry
2004-09-23T00:00:00
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actions: expressive adults animals: birds animals: mammals architecture cottage countries and continents farmland goose hedge Ireland Ireland, Connacht Ireland, Connacht, Galway landscape leisure and pastimes man mountain mule natural phenomena people places plants and flowers recreational activities residential road smoke smoking talking townscapes / man-made features woman