William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the Victorian era.
Title: "Portrait of A.A. Wilson (of Durham) seated on a settle with a Pug dog".
Signed and dated 1882. Oil on canvas.
Provenance: From the sitter's grandson who's family where friends of Ralph Hedley.
Size: 18"x 24". Framed size: 25 1/2"x 31 1/2".
Now cleaned and framed.
In very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery.
Ralph Hedley (1848 - 1913)
Ralph Hedley was a Newcastle genre painter who worked in both oil and watercolour. He was born in Richmond, Yorkshire in 1848 and studied at the Newcastle School of Art.
The subjects of his paintings are usually scenes of the working lives of ordinary people, from labourers and sailors through to veterans, in his native North East, beautifully observed and well executed. Hedley exhibited at the Society of British Artists as well as the Royal Academy from 1879. His works can be seen in the Sunderland and in the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.
William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the Victorian era.
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Ralph Hedley R.b.a. "A.a.wilson with a Pug Dog".
