EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY RA (1852-1911)

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Gouache over photograph

61.00 cm wide   26.50 cm high

24.02 inches wide  10.43 inches high

This period reproduction is after Edwin Austin Abbey's Royal Academy exhibit of 1898.

The title of the painting ia accompanied by the following lines:
Ye jewels of our father, with washed eyes
Cordelia leaves you. I know what you are;
And, like a sister, am most loth to call
Your faults as they are named. Love well our father.
To your professed bosoms I commit him.
But yet, alas! stood I within his grace,
I would prefer him to a better place.
So farewell to you both.

E. A. Abbey was born and brought up in Philadelphia and settled permanantly in England in 1880. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and continued to take commissions in America.

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