Large 19th Century English scene of girls gathering flowers in spring, oil on canvas by John Yen King. Excellent quality and condition large example of the artists work, possibly a Royal Academy exhibit. Signed and presented in its original gilt frame
Measurements: 36" x 26" framed approx
John Henry Yeend King trained in Paris under Lon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon. He exhibited regularly in London at the Royal Academy from 1879, and at the Suffolk Street Gallery from 1874. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, and vice-president of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. He exhibited in Berlin and Munich, and won a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889. The Tate Gallery in London acquired his painting Milking Time in 1898. His paintings of farm-girls in rustic landscapes are popular and highly sought after.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Liverpool: From Green to Gold
London (Tate Collection): Milking Time (exhibited 1898, oil on canvas)
Reading: Old Newbury; Meditation; Aldermaston; Poet and Countryman
Rochdale (AG): River Banks and Blossoms
Sheffield: Garden by a River; Farm on the Kentish Coast
Sydney (AG of New South Wales): The Garden by a River; A Farm near the Kentish Coast; Bibury, Gloucestershire
Torquay (Torre Abbey Historic House and Gal.): Evening in the Village (1897, oil on canvas)
Wolverhampton (AG and Mus.): Courtship (oil on canvas)
Bibliography
Henry King’ in Pall Mall Pictures of 1911, periodical, Pall Mall, London, 1911.
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