GEORGE HEMING MASON A.R.A. (BRITISH 1818-1872) UNDERCLIFF, NEAR VENTNOR, ISLE OF WIGHT

Signed and inscribed ‘Nr Ventnor George Mason ARA’ (on the reverse), oil on board

23.2cm x 32.7cm (9in x 13in)

Provenance: The artist’s studio sale, circa 1875, where purchased by George Dunlop Leslie, RA, and by descent to his daughter;

Mrs Lydia Leslie, and by descent to T. J. Tisdell;

Anonymous sale, Philips, London, 30 January 1990, lot 133.

Exhibited: Stoke on Trent, City Museum and Art Gallery, George Heming Mason, 1982, no., 51. (lent by T L Tisdell).

Studio sale (85): ‘This is probably a study made in connection with ‘Girls Dancing’ In the catalogue to Lord Overstone’s collection, 1875, it is stated that the sketches for that painting were made on the Isle of Wight’ (illustrated in catalogue).