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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Paintings, Room 82, The Edwin and Susan Davies Galleries

A Garden Scene

Oil Painting
1840 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The child is Leslie's youngest son, George Dunlop Leslie (1835-1921), who became a painter and writer. He is shown at play, still wearing baby clothes, with his toy horse and cart in the garden of the family home at 12 Pine Apple Place, Edgware Road, London.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleA Garden Scene (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Brief description
Oil painting, 'A Garden Scene', Charles Robert Leslie, 1840
Physical description
The artist's son is shown at play with his toy horse and cart in the back garden of the artist's home in the Edgware Road. A washing line is strung up between two trees and propped up with the bough of a tree.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 30.5cm
  • Estimate width: 40.6cm
  • Frame height: 940mm
  • Frame width: 1120mm
  • Frame depth: 110mm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style
Credit line
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Object history
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Summary
The child is Leslie's youngest son, George Dunlop Leslie (1835-1921), who became a painter and writer. He is shown at play, still wearing baby clothes, with his toy horse and cart in the garden of the family home at 12 Pine Apple Place, Edgware Road, London.
Bibliographic references
  • Schulze, Sabine, (ed.) The Painter's Garden: Design, Inspiration, Delight, Frankfurt am Main, Städel Museum, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006
  • Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 174
  • 100 Great Paintings in The Victoria & Albert Museum. London: V&A, 1985, p.134
Collection
Accession number
FA.130[O]

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Record createdDecember 15, 1999
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