- Artist
- Edward Atkinson Hornel 1864–1933
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1168 × 1022 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Sir Hugh Reid 1928
- Reference
- N04401
Catalogue entry
N04401 AUTUMN 1904
Inscr. ‘E A. Hornel 1904 [?]’ b.r., last figure more or less illegible.
Canvas, 46×40 1/4 (117×102).
Presented by Sir Hugh Reid, Bt. 1928.
Exh: Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow, 1905 (12, repr. pl.69).
Lit: James L. Caw, Scottish Painting Past and Present, 1908, p.403.
Repr: National Gallery, Millbank [Tate Gallery], Review of the Acquisitions, 1927–29, 1930, p.38.
James Caw stated that after his journey to Japan Hornel ‘settled down once more at Kirkcudbright [and] returned to the motives compounded of children in fancy dresses, flower-decked woods and watersides, and rich autumnal landscape’. The same children in rather similar poses appear in ‘Spring Idyll’ and in ‘Reverie’.
Sir Hugh Reid was an enthusiastic patron of Hornel's in Glasgow and wrote, in a letter of 16 June 1928, that he had ‘25 oil paintings by Hornel all produced - and dated (as he does with all his paintings) between 1885 and 1906’. The 1929 Tate Gallery British School catalogue gave the date on this picture as 1906, but 1904 is inscribed on the back of an old photograph sent by Sir Hugh Reid with his letter; furthermore, the picture was first exhibited in 1905.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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