- Artist
- Sir John Lavery 1856–1941
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Frame: 1490 × 2170 × 110 mm
support: 1232 × 1922 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1930
- Reference
- N04544
Catalogue entry
N04544 THE CHESS PLAYERS 1929
Inscr. ‘J. Lavery’ b.l. and on back ‘By John Lavery 5 Cromwell Place London S.W. The Chess Players 1929’.
Canvas, 48 1/2×75 1/2 (123×192).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1930.
Exh: R.A., 1930 (196).
Repr: Royal Academy Illustrated, 1930, p.57; Connoisseur, LXXXVI, 1930, p.46.
The picture shows the Hon. Margaret and the Hon. Rosemary Scott-Ellis, daughters of the 8th Baron Howard de Walden.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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