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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ernest-parton-414" aria-label="More by Ernest Parton" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Ernest Parton</a>
Waning Year
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1879
birch
farmland
lake
landscape
seasons
water: inland
winter
<p>Parton was born in Hudson, New York. He studied briefly with his brother Arthur, before coming to London in 1873. Thereafter, he divided his time between England and France. He specialized in poetical landscape, this picture being the first of many which took the silvery effects of the birch tree as their theme. This and the wistfulness of his subject matter suggests Parton was influenced by the French painter J.B.C. Corot (1796-1875). When this picture was first exhibited at the Royal Academy a critic, writing of its place in English landscape art, noted 'if we go on in this manner we shall, in the international race, overtake France one of these days.'</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
The Waning of the Year
support: 1816 × 1308 mm
frame: 2230 × 1720 × 185 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> 1879
<p>Parton was born in Hudson, New York. He studied briefly with his brother Arthur, before coming to London in 1873. Thereafter, he divided his time between England and France. He specialized in poetical <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>, this picture being the first of many which took the silvery effects of the birch tree as their theme. This and the wistfulness of his subject matter suggests Parton was influenced by the French painter J.B.C. Corot (1796-1875). When this picture was first exhibited at the Royal Academy a critic, writing of its place in English landscape art, noted 'if we go on in this manner we shall, in the international race, overtake France one of these days.'</p>
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2004-09-02T00:00:00
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birch farmland lake landscape seasons water: inland winter