Her Comfort

Albert Chevallier Tayler (1862 - 1925)

Penlee House Gallery and Museum

1889

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.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 45 x 34cm
• Art Fund Grant: £4620 ( Total: £10,120)
• ArtFunded in: 2007
• Vendor: W H Lane & Son, Penzance

Provenance

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

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