Beneath the Shaded Light of Lamps

Object Description

Beneath the Shaded Light of Lamps

by Elizabeth Adela Forbes (née Armstrong; Canadian 29 December 1859 – 16 March 1912)
Oil on board, 26 x 30cm
Signed with maiden name monogram

Object History

Provenance.
The Fine Art Society (label verso)
Exhibited at The Grosvenor Gallery, summer 1889.
Grosvenor Gallery
135-137 New Bond Street
London

Grosvenor Gallery.
The Grosvenor Gallery was one of the most well-known commercial art galleries in nineteenth century London, and has been one of the most thoroughly documented and analyzed by contemporary scholars. Founded in 1877 by Sir Coutts Lindsay and his wife Blanche, the Grosvenor quickly acquired a reputation as a fashionable and more sophisticated alternative to the Royal Academy. While the Grosvenor Gallery annual exhibitions included works by a wide range of contemporary artists, the space became identified with Aestheticism and artists such as Edward Burne-Jones and James McNeill Whistler.

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