Still Waters: a lady fishing and her companion reclining beside her
Oil Painting
1879 (painted)
1879 (painted)
| Artist/Maker |
Oil painting, 'Still Waters: a Lady Fishing and Her Companion Reclining Beside Her', Francis M. Trappes and Basil Bradley, 1879
Object details
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| Title | Still Waters: a lady fishing and her companion reclining beside her (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on canvas |
| Brief description | Oil painting, 'Still Waters: a Lady Fishing and Her Companion Reclining Beside Her', Francis M. Trappes and Basil Bradley, 1879 |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'FMT [monogram] 1879 Figures by Basil Bradley' (Signed and dated by the artists) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Joshua Dixon |
| Object history | Bequeathed by Joshua Dixon, 1886 Francis Trappes was a nineteenth century landscape artist of predominantly British subjects. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1876, displaying two works, Woodcock Shooting and A Passing Shower. He exhibited four times at the Royal Academy, in 1876, 1878, 1880 and 1885. In 1876 he was recorded as living in Gracechurch Street in London and by 1885 he was residing in Epping, Essex. Still Waters (titled Still Water in the Royal Academy catalogue) was exhibited in 1880 along with The Cover Side and An Essex Waste. For this work Trappes collaborated with Basil Bradley who executed the figures. It is known that the pair worked together on more than one occasion and Bradley also supplied the figures for the hunting scene titled The Cover Side. Trappes’ technique is meticulous and he appears to have revelled in the subject of Still Waters, the mirror like surface of which affords him an added opportunity to display his artistic dexterity in depicting foliage and hue. |
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| Accession number | 1015-1886 |
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| Record created | April 30, 2007 |
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