Philip Connard

Winter at Richmond

1938

Not on display

Artist: Philip Connard 1875–1958
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 508 × 686 mm
frame: 665 × 840 × 70 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1938
Reference: N05326

Catalogue entry

N05326 WINTER IN RICHMOND 1938

Inscr. ‘P. Connard’ b.r.
Canvas, 20×27 (51×69).
Chantrey Purchase at Barbizon House 1938.
Exh: Barbizon House, April–May 1938 (3), as ‘Early Spring’; R.A., 1939 (124), as ‘Winter in Richmond’.
Lit: Barbizon House Record, No.33, 1938, repr.; H. Granville Fell, ‘Some Topics of the Moment: Mr Connard's Spring Songs of Richmond’ in Connoisseur, CI, 1938, p.266, repr.

The picture was painted in March 1938 from the balcony of the artist's house, Cholmondeley Lodge, Richmond, Surrey, where he lived from 1932 until his death. According to Granville Fell, loc. cit., ‘Some of his latest canvases have been painted during the “unwonted halcyon days of March [1938]” on the banks of the Thames at Richmond.’

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I