George Clare - Still life of a bird's nest and primroses

signed 'GEORGE CLARE' (lower left)
watercolour and bodycolour, with gum arabic on paper
13¼ x 9¼ in.

A painter of still-lives, Clare exhibited between 1844 and 1899 at the Royal Academy, The British Institution and the Society for British Artists, Suffolk Street. He was the father of Oliver Clare