Walter Langley 1852-1922
CARRYING THE CATCH, circa 1890s
Watercolour
Unframed: 35.5 x 45.5 cm.; 14 x 18 in.
Framed: 52.5 x 62 cm.; 20¾ x 24½ in.
Framed: 52.5 x 62 cm.; 20¾ x 24½ in.
Signed lower right 'W. Langley.'
WB1580
Copyright The Artist
The figure of the fisherman's wife in Carrying the Catch is based on the woman on the left in Langley's large oil painting The Breadwinners exhibited at the Royal Academy...
The figure of the fisherman's wife in Carrying the Catch is based on the woman on the left in Langley's large oil painting The Breadwinners exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1896 (private collection)
Provenance
Alexander Gallery, Bristol;Christie's, London, 3 June 2004, lot 194
Private Collection
Literature
Roger Langley, Walter Langley, Pioneer of the Newlyn Art Colony, Bristol, 1997
Lionel Birch, Stanhope A. Forbes, A. R. A., and Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes, A. R. W. S., London, Cassell Limited, 1906
