British Art: Edmund Blair Leighton

Friday, February 15, 2013

Edmund Blair Leighton - Maternity, 1917

oil on canvas
51 7/8 x 46¾ in. (131.8 x 118.8 cm.)
signed with initials and dated '1917' (lower left)
private collection

cz

2 comments:

Hels said...: 1917!! War time. The title Is interesting and I wonder if the new mother was about to have her baby baptised or perhaps given away to an orphanage? Dad may have been a soldier far away.; February 15, 2013 at 9:43 AM
Unknown said...: I've seen that painting before, it's wonderfull
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Spiderman Games; February 16, 2013 at 1:01 AM

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A blog on my love of Victorian and Edwardian paintings. Please note over 70,000 painters of this period, many very obscure, have been identified and this blog concentrates on those that have come up for auction in the last ten years or so. It is mainly compiled using old auction catalogues with help from the many reference books I own.

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