Large 19th Century English scene of a returning daughter pleading her father for forgiveness, oil on canvas by George Goodwin Kilburne. Excellent quality and condition genre scene of the 18th nobleman seated on his terrace as his returning daughter, possibly from eloping with her lover, implores for her fathers pardon. Signed and dated 1886.
Provenance: Exhibited Royal Academy 1886, no. 861
Measurements: 31" x 26.5" framed approx
Artists Biography
George Kilburne trained in London with the Dalziel Brothers, a firm of engravers and illustrators. He is known for his popular paintings and prints of genre scenes and interiors with fashionable well-to-do figures, and also provided illustrations for magazines such as The Graphic, The Illustrated London News and Cassell's Magazine.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1862 to 1918, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (of which he was a member from 1868), the Royal Miniature Society, the Royal Society of Arts in Birmingham, the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, and Manchester City Art Gallery.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Bolton (Mus. and AG): The New Spinet
Bury (Mus. and AG): (The Departure) Ready to Start (watercolour on paper)
Liverpool (Walker AG): Poor Relations (1875, oil on canvas)
Manchester (City AG): Teaching Baby to Catch (1875, watercolour on paper); A Summer's Day (c. 1890, watercolour on paper); On the Staircase (oil on panel)
Sheffield (AG)
Sydney: Visit to the Artist's Studio
Wichita (AM): The Coach in Sight (watercolour on paper)
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