FDA-P.563:3-2019
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.563:3-2019
Object type
Identification
Title
College Hall from Brewhouse Yard
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Painted view of buildings, with pigeons in the foreground and a tree in the distance
Comments
This work was painted as an illustration to 'Eton in Prose & Verse: An Anthology' (published 1910), written by Arthur Campbell Ainger (1841–1919), an Assistant Master at Eton College.
The artist, Arthur Paine Garratt, was a prominent black and white illustrator and also worked as a copyist. There are some 11 oil paintings by Garratt in UK public collections and two works on paper by him in the Royal Collection.
The artist, Arthur Paine Garratt, was a prominent black and white illustrator and also worked as a copyist. There are some 11 oil paintings by Garratt in UK public collections and two works on paper by him in the Royal Collection.
Description
Dimensions
height (sight size): 328mm
width (sight size): 234mm
width (sight size): 234mm
Inscription
Signed in oil paint, lower right: 'A. GARRATT'
Materials & techniques note
Oil on board
Physical description
Framed
Production
Person
Garratt, Arthur Paine, 1873 - 1955 (Artist)
Date
c.1909
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Sold through Christie's, South Kensington, 2 November 2001 (Lot 99);; sold through Chorley's, Prinknash Abbey Park, Gloucestershire as 'The Exterior of College Hall from Brewhouse Yard', on 23 July 2019 (Lot 573), for £845 (with FDA-P.563:2-2019 & FDA-D.1606-2019); from which sale purchased by Eton College
References
• Ainger, A.C., Eton in Prose and Verse: An Anthology, published 1910
