Oil paint on canvas
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A Secret
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1915
abbey
adults
angel
arch
architecture
Beaulieu Abbey
child
children
England
England, South East
England, Southern
features
fine arts and music
garland
Gothic
Hampshire
instrument, lute
instrument, stringed
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
medieval
objects
people
periods and styles
places
plants and flowers
religion and belief
religious
religious
ruins
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK man-made landmarks
universal religious imagery
woman
Wordsworth, William, ‘Ode: Intimations of Mortality’
painting oil paint canvas
23 February 2024 – 30 June 2024
2024-06-30
23 February 2024 – 30 June 2024
2024-06-30
2024-02-23
Musei di San Domenico (Forlì, Italy)
2024-02-23
Pre-Raphaelites: A Modern Renaissance
Loan-out
A Secret
support: 914 × 1232 mm
frame: 1120 × 1416 × 90 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> 1915
<p><b>N03029</b>	A SECRET <i>c.</i> 1914
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<p>Inscr. ‘Fred. Appleyard.’ b.r.</p>
<p>Canvas, 36×48 1/2 (91·5×123).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1915.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1915 (10).</p>
<p>The artist wrote (11 May 1953) that he painted this picture under the inspiration of lines from stanza 5 of Wordsworth's <i>Ode: Intimations of Immortality:</i></p>
<p>Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ... But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!</p>
<p>The background was painted at Beaulieu Abbey, Hampshire, in 1914.</p>
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2004-07-16T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abbey adults angel arch architecture Beaulieu Abbey child children England England, South East England, Southern features fine arts and music garland Gothic Hampshire instrument, lute instrument, stringed literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) medieval objects people periods and styles places plants and flowers religion and belief religious religious ruins UK counties UK countries and regions UK man-made landmarks universal religious imagery woman Wordsworth, William, ‘Ode: Intimations of Mortality’