Description
An original 1871 watercolour painting, E. Rengert, Seamstress with Young Girl.A charming Victorian genre scene. This watercolour captures a tender moment between a woman sewing and a young girl assisting with the thread, in a humble interior.An accompanying fragment of backboard gives the painting’s provenance: ‘Watercolour taken from scrap book owned by the Brittain family late of Giffords Hall, Stoke-by-Nayland’. Giffords Hall is a Tudor manor house near Stoke-by-Nayland in Suffolk, described by Nikolaus Pevsner as ‘one of the loveliest houses of its date in England’. It was owned by James Winter Brittain between 1874 and 1910.All artworks come with a Certificate of Authenticity and in some cases the accompanying collection text or artist biography. Signed: Signed lower left. Inscribed: Inscribed on accompanying backing board fragment. Dated: Dated lower left. Height: 21.6cm (8.5) Width: 16cm (6.3) Condition: Age toning across the sheet, most visible on the verso. There is a small margin of mount burn around the periphery. There is a small area of repaired damage to the paper at the upper right corner. Please see photos for detail. There are historic adhesive marks and/or paper remnants to the verso upper edge, from previous mounting. Presented: Unframed.
| Period | Before 1890 |
|---|---|
| Production Period | Before 1890 |
| Style | Romantic |
| Detailed Condition |
Good This vintage/antique item may have some wear such as scratches and other signs of ageing. |
| Product Code | XWO-1448374 |
| Materials | Watercolor |
| Width |
16 cm 6.3 inch |
| Height |
22 cm 8.5 inch |
| Duties Notice | Import duty is not included in the prices you see online. You may have to pay import duties upon receipt of your order. |
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