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Her Comfort (© Penlee House Gallery and Museum)
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© Penlee House Gallery and Museum

Her Comfort

Artist: Albert Chevallier Tayler (1862 - 1925)

Location: Penlee House Gallery and Museum

Date: 1889

Materials: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 45 x 34cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £4,620 (Total: £10,120)

Vendor: W H Lane & Son, Penzance

Review number: 5972 (2007)

Provenance:
Private collection; WH Lane & Son between 1992 and1995; Trehayes Collection.

Description:
Tayler was a leading member of the art movement known as the ‘Newlyn School’. This work was painted using the classic square brush technique, and represents a typical Newlyn interior, with a single female figure seated at a table, reading the Bible.

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