THE BARING FAMILY / SUMMER IDYLL.

Image: Liss Llewellyn.

  • Title(s): The Baring Family (reference?); Summer idyll (Liss Llewellyn, 1991-2019; Christie’s/ArtPrice/Artory.com [dead link]). [Note: previously identified ‘Summer Idyll’ as ‘The Baring Family’
  • Description: A woman with three children, a young boy and two young girls in a rural scene, the woman and boy a seated on the ground, the elder girl standing and playing a violin, the younger girl lying on her front, a cat on the right.
  • Media: Oil on canvas (multiple sources).
  • Dimensions: Average “233.68 cm x 218.44 cm” (Christie’s, 1988); “Size: / Height – 234.8cm / Width – 219.6cm” (Liss Llewellyn, 1991-2019).
  • Signature/date/other text: “Signed and dated” (Liss Llewellyn, 1991-2019); “Indistinctly Signed dated” (Christie’s, 1988).
  • History:
    • 1912 – “1912 … signed / dated” (Artory.com [dead link]).
    • 1988 Nov 17 – Auctioned Christie’s, South Kensington, London, lot 13, “Oil on canvas / 234.8 x 219.6 cm / indistinctly Signed dated / Illustrated on page 10 of the cataloge”, sold: hammer £5,800, premium £6,380 (ArtPrice; Artory.com [dead link]).
    • 1991-2019 – Sold at Liss Llewellyn, London, sometime during period 1991-2019, “Signed and dated / Oil on canvas / Size: / Height – 234.8cm / Width – 219.6cm” (Liss Llewellyn, 1991-2019).
  • Location: ?

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