Studies from an album of scraps from sketch books by Jas. Smetham.
Adam Offering Eve a Glass of Brandy: Graphite/pencil and brown wash highlighted with gum arabic on buff paper. Backing paper: Blue Ingres, laid (1). Inscribed in pencil with the title on the reverse.
Sheet: 11.8 x 6 cm.
Backing paper: 27 x 21 cm.
Provenance: A transcript of a letter written by the artist’s daughter will be included in the sale.
James Smetham produced over four hundred paintings during his lifetime. Like his good friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who was a major influence on his art, Smetham was a poet as well as a painter. He also wrote criticisms and recorded fascinating details on many celebrated personages of his day. His paintings ranged from portraits to Biblical interpretations, arcadian vignettes and landscapes. Smetham had great hopes and complicated theories about how audiences would understand and buy his art, but he was sadly disappointed with critical response. However, he received praise from some eminent contemporaries like John Ruskin, George Frederick Watts and Dante Gabriel Rossetti who hailed his friends'' paintings as ''the flower of modern art''.
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Antique Number: SA887841
Dateline of this antique is 19th Century
Height is 27cm (10.6inches)
Width is 21cm (8.3inches)
Depth is 0cm (0.0inches)
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