Sir John Lavery

The Chess Players

1929

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Artist: Sir John Lavery 1856–1941
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Frame: 1490 x 2170 x 110 mm
support: 1232 x 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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