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In the fields in June
CLAUSEN, George (Clausen was born in London to George Clausen Senior, a decorative painter of Danish descent. He attended the Royal College of Art and South Kensington art schools, then the Académie Julian in Paris. He was a founding member of the New English Art Club and was elected Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy in 1904. He was knighted in 1927.)
Born and trained in London, Clausen specialised in scenes of rural life and was preoccupied with the effects of light. Sketches reveal that he originally intended to portray six or seven labourers in this unusually large canvas. The subject matter recalls Millet, but the extensive sky is reminiscent of recent Dutch paintings of the Hague School.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 176
Creation/Production
CLAUSEN, George
Date: 1914
Acquisition
Purchase, 1914
Measurements
Height
(cm): 183
Width
(cm): 213.7
Height
(in): 72
Width
(in): 84
h(cm) frame:203.0
h(cm)
w(cm) frame:233.0
w(cm)
d(cm) frame:10.0
d(cm)
Techniques
oil on canvas
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
oil
canvas
Location
In store
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