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Hortus Inclusus

Joseph Southall

Art Funded
2004
Dimensions
40 x 74.2 cm
Art Fund grant
£50,000 (Total: £166,500)
Vendor
Fine Art Society
Hortus Inclusus means a private garden, typified here by the tall yew hedges in the background, and was a popular Renaissance theme.

This work is a portrait of Southall's future wife, Anna Elizabeth Baker with her cat. It suggests the atmosphere of an idealised resting place apart from the world.

Provenance

Private collector, 1898; then by descent; Fine Art Society in the 1980s; Alan Fortunoff, New York; Fine Art Society, 2004.

Watercolour on vellum

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Image credit

1 . Hortus Inclusus

© Reproduced with permission of the Barrow family

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