Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-john-lavery-332" aria-label="More by Sir John Lavery" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir John Lavery</a>
Chess Players
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1930
actions: postures and motions
aristocrat
book - non-specific
chair
chess / draughts
chess board / chequerboard
chess piece
children
domestic
family
flower
furnishings
girl
individuals: female
interiors
leisure and pastimes
living room
named individuals
objects
people
plants and flowers
portraits
reading, writing, printed matter
recreational activities
royalty and social rank
rug
Scott-Ellis, Margaret, Hon.
Scott-Ellis, Rosemary, Hon.
sister
sitting
society
sports and games
sunshine
table
vase
vessels and containers
weather
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
26 September 2012
26 September 2012 – 30 September 2015
2015-09-30
2012-09-26
Chirk Castle (Chirk, UK)
2012-09-26
Long loan to Chirk Castle
Loan-out
The Chess Players
frame: 1490 × 2170 × 110 mm
support: 1232 × 1922 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> 1930
<p><b>N04544</b> THE CHESS PLAYERS 1929
<br/> 
<br/>Inscr. ‘J. Lavery’ b.l. and on back ‘By John Lavery 5 Cromwell Place London S.W. The Chess Players 1929’.
<br/>Canvas, 48 1/2×75 1/2 (123×192).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1930.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1930 (196).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1930, p.57; <i>Connoisseur</i>, LXXXVI, 1930, p.46.</p>
<p>The picture shows the Hon. Margaret and the Hon. Rosemary Scott-Ellis, daughters of the 8th Baron Howard de Walden.</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
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-20T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions aristocrat book - non-specific chair chess board / chequerboard chess / draughts chess piece children domestic family flower furnishings girl individuals: female interiors leisure and pastimes living room named individuals objects people plants and flowers portraits reading, writing, printed matter recreational activities royalty and social rank rug Scott-Ellis, Margaret, Hon. Scott-Ellis, Rosemary, Hon. sister sitting society sports and games sunshine table vase vessels and containers weather work and occupations