Landscape with Trees
Oil Painting
ca. 1892 (painted)
ca. 1892 (painted)
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Oil on millboard entitled 'Landscape with Trees' depicting a small clump of trees on a gentle slope. Signed and lettered with dedication and date.
Object details
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| Title | Landscape with Trees (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on millboard |
| Brief description | Oil on millboard entitled 'Landscape with Trees' by Hawes Craven. Great Britain, ca. 1892. |
| Physical description | Oil on millboard entitled 'Landscape with Trees' depicting a small clump of trees on a gentle slope. Signed and lettered with dedication and date. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Hawes Craven (signed lower left)
to Alice Simpson / with kindest regards / July 3. 1892
(inscribed by the artist) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Miss Agnes G. Simpson |
| Object history | Bequeathed by Miss Agnes G. Simpson, 1974 Historical significance: Hawes Craven (1837-1910), the son of a comedian and an actress, became interested in theatrical scene painting at a young age. He attended the Government School of Design at the South Kensington Museum (later the V&A) from 1851-1853, where he won a number of prizes. On leaving the School of Design he was apprenticed to John Gray, scene-painter of the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton and later of the Olympic Theatre on Wych Street. From 1871 to 1901 Craven was the principal scene-painter at the Lyceum Theatre in London, working for the great actor-manager Sir Henry Irving. Their collaboration on grand productions resulted in some of the most spectacular and thoroughly researched scenery on the London stage. As the inscription attests, this small landscape painting was painted for Alice Simpson, a friend of the artist, in July 1892. It was bequeathed to the V&A by her daughter, Miss Agnes Simpson. |
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| Accession number | P.14-1974 |
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| Record created | June 15, 2006 |
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