PREVIEW: Regular readers of Gallery Notes will know that we have long specialised in flower painting. It was a surprise therefore when this remarkable oil painting arrived in the gallery by an English artist that we had never heard of. Peter Mitchell’s exhaustive dictionary of European Flower Painters (1973) gave no account of him, and almost unprecedentedly the Witt Library archives of the Courtauld Institute have no record of him. From what little is known it is clear he was part of the Burgess dynasty of painters who worked in London at the turn of the nineteenth century...
Gallery Notes
June 2018