12th Sep, 2017 10:00

Fine Art

 
  Lot 87
 

Sold for £3,200


Lot details
Thomas Sword Good, HRSA (1789-1872) ''The Smugglers (a sea beach with figures)'', signed; with inscription on a label verso, oil on panel, 28.5 x 38cms; 11 1/4 x 15in. EXHIBITED The British Institution 1831 (297). Berwick upon Tweed Museum Galleries Exhibition of Pictures & Handicrafts by Mr. Frank Wood and Members of Berwick upon Tweed Arts Club, 1947 (175). Carlisle 1825, location unknown. NB This painting is though to have been executed in 1831 and originally purchased by Alderman Joseph Fleming. The title 'Smugglers'' is probably a later invention - Good's only exhibited painting in which he explicitly claimed to portray contrabandists, was ''Smugglers Resting'' at the Royal Academy in 1825. His brother Robert, seems to have been the model for the seated male figure. When exhibited at the British Institution, the Literary Gazette said ''In composition, character, and finishing, one of the Artist's goodest productions''. LITERATURE Fleming (John) Thomas Sword Good: A disregarded Victorian painter. In Country Life, 23rd January, 1948. The Connoisseur Encyclopaedia of the Arts, vol. V, 1961, plate 88A. Bowes (P. Edwin) In A Strong Light: The Art Of Thomas Sword Good, published by Berwick upon Tweed Museum & Art Gallery, 1989, plate 19. See illustration
 

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