Large 19th Century scene of a mother and her children, oil on canvas by Paul Falconer Poole. Beautiful yet melancholic scene of rural hardship as a young mother accompanied by two daughters, weary and barefooted, walk mid journey along a rocky path. Beautifully painted example of Poole's work presented in a good gilt frame with artists plaque.
Measurements: 30" x 26" framed approx
Artist Biography
Unusually for a portraitist, Paul Falconer Poole was largely self-taught. He exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in London in 1830 and continued to show his work there until his death in 1879. He also exhibited at the British Institution and at the Suffolk Street Gallery. Poole was elected to associate membership of the Royal Academy in 1849 and to full membership in 1861. He submitted work to the competition organised to decorate the new Parliament buildings in 1847 and was awarded a prize of 300 pounds. Poole was also awarded a medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1855.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Bristol: Imogne
Bristol (City Mus. & AG): Visitation and Surrender of Syon Nunnery to the Commissioners, 1539 (oil on canvas)
Cardiff: Peasants in the Marshes
Hamburg: Young Girl Resting; Emigrants
Leicester: Arlette, the Young Peasant Girl Discovered by Robert the Devil; Italian Family
London: Baron Lytton
London (National Portrait Gal.): Edmund Burke (1791, wax medallion); three other medallions
London (Royal Academy of Arts): Repentance; Helping the Wounded
London (Tate Collection): The Vision of Ezekiel (exhibited in 1875, oil on canvas)
London (Victoria and Albert Mus.): Difficult Path; Death of Cordelia
Manchester: The Goths in Italy; Mother and Child
Preston: Crossing the Heather on a Windy Day; Autumn
Sheffield: Salomon Eagle; Young Woman of Capri
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