Apple blossom
One of a series of spontaneous oil sketches of trees of the 1880s painted from Nature in the open air.
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Details
Collection
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Item Number
NMW A 174
Historical Associations
Association Type: Provenance
Associated Person/Body: Thompson, James Pyke
Association Type: Private collector
Creation/Production
Clausen was born in London to George Clausen Senior, a decorative painter of Danish descent. He attended the Royal College of Art and South Kensington art schools, then the Académie Julian in Paris. He was a founding member of the New English Art Club and was elected Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy in 1904. He was knighted in 1927.
Role: Artist
Period: 1885
Acquisition
Bequest, 1898
Measurements
Height
(cm): 24.9
Width
(cm): 22.7
Height
(in): 9
Width
(in): 8
Techniques
Oil on millboard
Techniques (fine art)
Art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
Oil
Millboard
Location
In store
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