E. Rengert Seamstress with Young Girl
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An original 1871 watercolour painting, E. Rengert, Seamstress with Young Girl.
A charming Victorian genre scene. This watercolour captures a tender moment between a woman sewing and a young girl assisting with the thread, in a humble interior.
An accompanying fragment of backboard gives the painting's provenance: 'Watercolour taken from scrap book owned by the Brittain family late of Giffords Hall, Stoke-by-Nayland'. Giffords Hall is a Tudor manor house near Stoke-by-Nayland in Suffolk, described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the loveliest houses of its date in England'. It was owned by James Winter Brittain between 1874 and 1910.
Dimensions: Height: 21.6cm (8.5") Width: 16cm (6.3")
Presented: Unframed.
Medium: Watercolour
Age: Late 19th-century
Signed: Signed lower left.
Inscribed: Inscribed on accompanying backing board fragment.
Dated: Dated lower left.
Condition: Age toning across the sheet, most visible on the verso. There is a small margin of mount burn around the periphery. There is a small area of repaired damage to the paper at the upper right corner. Please see photos for detail. There are historic adhesive marks and/or paper remnants to the verso upper edge, from previous mounting.
Stock number: JT-325
