Ralph Hedley, RBA (1848-1913) ''THE NEW SCHOLAR'' signed and dated 1906; signed, inscribed with title and Artist's address ''22 New Bridge Street, Newcastle'' on an exhibition label verso oil on canvas 84 x 104cms; 33 x 41in. EXHIBITED Bewick Club, Newcastle, 23rd Annual Exhibition, 1906 (No. 167) Royal Society of British Artists, London, 1907 (No. 324) Royal Society of British Artists Exhibition, Victorian Art Gallery, Bath, 1907 (No. 156) North Counties Exhibition, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, 1913 (No. 1) Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Loan Exhibition of Works by Ralph Hedley, RBA, October-December 1938 (No. 40) Listed in Ralph Hedley's Executors' Book at the time of his death in 1913 as inventory No. 49 See illustration