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13 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (35 x 25 cm.)
Size:
Height – 35cm x Width – 25cm
Provenance: private collection, London, since 1970
Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1932, no. 653
Lambeth Delftware is characterised by a thick opaque enamel, with a pinkish tinge and blue decoration. This picture was the artist’s first Royal Academy exhibit.
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Portrait, landscape and figure painter in oil and watercolour. Born in London, Haggis studied art in Australia and at the Royal College of Art under Malcolm Osborne. He showed widely, including Walker Galleries London, the RA, RP, NEAC, RCamA, RWA and Paris Salon. His work is in Australian and British museums. His portrait commissions included Fredric March, Mai Zetterling and Claire Bloom. He painted many landscapes in Britain, especially in Yorkshire and Hertfordshire, where he lived at Welwyn. In 1921 he founded the Welwyn Garden City Art Club. According to The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, in addition to painting Haggis ‘worked as an Australian Boundary rider, station hand, plumbers mate, beekeeper and in insurance.’
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