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Sketch for ‘A Hopeless Dawn’

Acc.no: PEZPH : 2017.69


IDENFIFICATION

Brief Description: Two women are waiting for news of a loved one lost at sea. The final version of the picture, exhibited at the RA in 1888, is in the Tate Britain collection, and is considered to be a ground-breaking picture which established the Newlyn School. It was the only painting by one of its members to be purchased for the National Collection of British Are under the terms of the Chantrey Bequest. This sketch was given by the artist to Mademoiselle Caisson, Cannes, and thence by descent.


PRODUCTION

Person: Bramley, Frank

Date: b 1859, d 1915

Production Date: 1888

Frame Width: 620 mm

Image Width: 450 mm

Frame Height: 505 mm

Frame Width: 620 mm


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Support: canvas

Support: canvas


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Category: Fine Art

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