Oil paint on canvas
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Mr Heatherleys Holiday An Incident in Studio Life
Presented by representatives of Jason Smith 1911
‘Discobolus’, sculpture
‘Farnese Hercules’, sculpture
actions: postures and motions
adults
artist - non-specific
arts and entertainment
basket
body
educational and scientific
England
fine art and design, named works
fine arts and music
furnishings
Heatherley
Heatherley’s Art School
individuals: male
interiors
jar
man
named individuals
objects
people
pincers / pliers
places
portraits
sculpture, classical
shelf
sitting
skeleton
studio
teacher
tools and machinery
UK countries and regions
UK London
vessels and containers
work and occupations
workspaces
<p>This is Butler’s largest painting and is considered his most successful. Butler himself referred to this work as ‘important’. It was however, based on a joke. Mr Heatherley, who ran an art school in London that Butler attended, is pictured fixing a skeleton. The skeleton was regularly damaged by students who would dress it up in costumes or dance with it. The ‘holiday’ referred to in the title is also intended to be amusing. Mr Heatherley was notorious for never taking a holiday, preferring to stay in London and look after his studio.</p><p><em>Gallery label, June 2019</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
25 November 2002 – 31 May 2003
2003-05-31
25 November 2002 – 30 May 2003
2003-05-30
2002-11-25
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-11-25
Samuel Butler
Collection based display
26 September 2009 – 16 May 2010
2010-05-16
26 September 2009 – 13 December 2009
2009-12-13
2009-09-26
Compton Verney (Compton Verney, UK)
9 February 2010 – 16 May 2010
2010-05-16
2010-02-09
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (Norwich, UK)
2009-09-26
The Artists studio
Loan-out
5 November 2012 – 20 July 2014
2014-07-20
5 November 2012 – 20 July 2014
2014-07-20
2012-11-05
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-11-05
Gallery 9
Collection based display
7 August 2014 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
7 August 2014
2014-08-07
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-08-07
Gallery 9
Collection based display
11 May 2016 – 25 September 2016
2016-09-25
11 May 2016 – 25 September 2016
2016-09-25
2016-05-11
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2016-05-11
Painting with Light: Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the modern age
Exhibition
Mr Heatherley’s Holiday: An Incident in Studio Life
support: 921 × 708 mm
frame: 1058 × 857 × 88 mm
Presented by representatives of Jason Smith 1911
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<p>This is Butler’s largest painting and is considered his most successful. Butler himself referred to this work as ‘important’. It was however, based on a joke. Mr Heatherley, who ran an art school in London that Butler attended, is pictured fixing a skeleton. The skeleton was regularly damaged by students who would dress it up in costumes or dance with it. The ‘holiday’ referred to in the title is also intended to be amusing. Mr Heatherley was notorious for never taking a holiday, preferring to stay in London and look after his studio.</p>
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actions: postures and motions adults artist - non-specific arts and entertainment basket body ‘Discobolus’, sculpture educational and scientific England ‘Farnese Hercules’, sculpture fine art and design, named works fine arts and music furnishings Heatherley Heatherley’s Art School individuals: male interiors jar man named individuals objects people pincers / pliers places portraits sculpture, classical shelf sitting skeleton studio teacher tools and machinery UK countries and regions UK London vessels and containers work and occupations workspaces