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Jubilee Procession in a Cornish Village, A.G. Sherwood Hunter (1846-1919)

Oil on canvas, Newlyn School, June 1897. This painting is a wonderful record of a lantern procession held to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The women and girls in the procession, all dressed in white and carrying Chinese lanterns, are shown snaking their way through the Cornish fishing village of Newlyn. George Sherwood Hunter was born in Aberdeen and visited Newlyn around the turn of the century. He settled there permanently in 1902 where he taught alongside Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes at the Newlyn School of Painting. Like many artists associated with the Newlyn School, Hunter was interested in depicting working people around the ports and villages of Cornwall. The painting underwent considerable conservation and restoration in 2010 which meant that, for the first time in over 100 years, the exquisitely painted faces of those in the procession could be seen in all their subtle glory. The delicate beauty in the children's faces is made more remarkable when one takes into consideration the very limited palette Hunter works with

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Portrait of Sydney Bowles, Lady Redesdale, 1916 (oil on canvas)

CTS379072 Portrait of Sydney Bowles, Lady Redesdale, 1916 (oil on canvas) by Laszlo, Philip Alexius de (1869-1937); Collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, UK; (add.info.: Sydney Bowles Mitford, Lady Redesdale (1880-1963);); © Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth; Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; English, out of copyright.
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Portrait of Lady Maud Cavendish (oil on canvas)

621546 Portrait of Lady Maud Cavendish (oil on canvas) by Peacock, Ralph (1868-1946); 137.2x71.1 cm; Collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, UK; (add.info.: Lady Maud Cavendish (1896-1975), daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire, later Lady Maud Mackintosh, and Lady Maud Baillie.); © Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth; Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; English, it is possible that some works by this artist may be protected by third party rights in some territories

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