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Attributed to John Glover (1767-1849)MUSIDORA BATHING HER FEEToil on canvaswith inscription on label
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Attributed to John Glover (1767-1849)
MUSIDORA BATHING HER FEET
oil on canvas
with inscription on label affixed on reverse, which reads `This cool retreat his Musidora sought; Warm in her cheek the sultry season glowed, And, robed in loose array, she came to bathe, Her fervent limbs in the refreshing stream`. bide Thomson`s Seasons/Glover"
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34 by 34in., 85 by 85cm.
Purchased by the previous owner at the Contents Sale, Staleen House, Donore, Co. Meath, c/o Alain, Chawner Ltd., 29 July 1986, lot 243 (illustrated p.14);Private collection
This subject was also painted by Thomas Gainsborough among others.Staleen House was owned by Thomas Gerard Du Buisson (b. 1892, Betchworth, Surrey). He served with the Royal Horse Artillery on the Western Front during WWI from August 1914. He was Secretary of the Grafton Hunt and lived between England and Ireland with his wife, Sylvia Grace (née Portman). He died aged 97 in Suffolk.
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Attributed to John Glover (1767-1849)
MUSIDORA BATHING HER FEET
oil on canvas
with inscription on label affixed on reverse, which reads `This cool retreat his Musidora sought; Warm in her cheek the sultry season glowed, And, robed in loose array, she came to bathe, Her fervent limbs in the refreshing stream`. bide Thomson`s Seasons/Glover"
Portrait
34 by 34in., 85 by 85cm.
Purchased by the previous owner at the Contents Sale, Staleen House, Donore, Co. Meath, c/o Alain, Chawner Ltd., 29 July 1986, lot 243 (illustrated p.14);Private collection
This subject was also painted by Thomas Gainsborough among others.Staleen House was owned by Thomas Gerard Du Buisson (b. 1892, Betchworth, Surrey). He served with the Royal Horse Artillery on the Western Front during WWI from August 1914. He was Secretary of the Grafton Hunt and lived between England and Ireland with his wife, Sylvia Grace (née Portman). He died aged 97 in Suffolk.
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