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Ralph Hedley. "Time for Bed". Large Domestic/marine Oil Painting.
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Ralph Hedley. "Time for Bed". Large Domestic/marine Oil Painting.

19th century
Description

Artist: Ralph Hedley. R.B.A. (1848-1913).

Title: "Time for Bed". Inscribed with title and artist's name on the original plaque. Dated Circa 1880. Oil on canvas.

Size: 33"x 29". Framed size: 44 1/2"x 40 1/2".

Now cleaned, and it's good original gilt gold leaf swept frame now also cleaned and restored.

In very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery. Trade enquiries welcome. For more info please contact us at:

Tel: 01677 424830

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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. Later he became the President of the Berwick Club and Northumbrian Art Institute, as well as a Member of the Society of British Artists. 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.

Physical Dimensions
Height
113cm (44.49")
Width
103cm (40.55")
Depth
10cm (3.94")
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William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this Ralph Hedley Oil Painting to the 1880s.

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Description
Artist: Ralph Hedley. R.B.A. (1848-1913).

Title: "Time for Bed". Inscribed with title and artist's name on the original plaque. Dated Circa 1880. Oil on canvas.

fig 1. An oil painting depicting a fisherman carrying a sleeping child into a dimly lit cottage room while a woman wearing a red top leans forward.
fig 1. Ralph Hedley. "Time for Bed". Large Domestic/marine Oil Painting.

Size: 33"x 29". Framed size: 44 1/2"x 40 1/2".

Now cleaned, and it's good original gilt gold leaf swept frame now also cleaned and restored.

In very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery. Trade enquiries welcome. For more info please contact us at:

fig 2. An oil painting depicting a fisherman carrying a sleeping child into a dimly lit cottage room while a woman wearing a red top leans forward.
fig 2. Ralph Hedley. "Time for Bed". Large Domestic/marine Oil Painting.

Tel: 01677 424830

Mob: 07885 175279

Email: williamgreenwoodfineart@gmail.com

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.

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Later he became the President of the Berwick Club and Northumbrian Art Institute, as well as a Member of the Society of British Artists.
William Greenwood Fine 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.

Height
113cm (44.49")
Width
103cm (40.55")
Depth
10cm (3.94")
Date of Manufacture

William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this Ralph Hedley Oil Painting to the 1880s.

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SA909859
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William Greenwood Fine Art
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Archive I An oil painting depicting a fisherman carrying a sleeping child into a dimly lit cottage room while a woman wearing a red top leans forward.

Ralph Hedley. "Time for Bed". Large Domestic/marine Oil Painting.

Archive II An oil painting depicting a fisherman carrying a sleeping child into a dimly lit cottage room while a woman wearing a red top leans forward. View II
Archive III An oil painting depicting a fisherman carrying a sleeping child into a dimly lit cottage room while a woman wearing a red top leans forward. View III
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An oil painting depicting a fisherman carrying a sleeping child into a dimly lit cottage room while a woman wearing a red top leans forward.
Ralph Hedley. "Time for Bed". Large domestic/marine oil painting.
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Victorian narrative and genre painting focuses on depicting scenes of everyday life, human emotion, and storytelling within nineteenth-century Britain. Artists utilised realistic rendering, detailed domestic settings, and atmospheric lighting to evoke a specific sense of time and place.

Oil paintings of this era were created using mineral and organic pigments bound in drying oils, predominantly linseed oil. These paints were applied to stretched linen or cotton canvas prepared with a gesso primer coat.

Authentic period paintings display natural signs of age, including fine craquelure across the paint surface, darkening or oxidation of the canvas substrate, and period-appropriate wooden stretcher bars. Signatures, artist labels, or gallery stamps on the reverse further assist in identification.

Place the artwork as a focal point above a mantelpiece or sideboard, using subtle picture lighting to highlight the composition. Frame the piece in a classic timber or gold leaf moulding to complement both contemporary and traditional interior palettes.

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