Lot 40: Edith Hayllar (1860-1948)

Edith Hayllar (1860-1948)
Five o'clock tea
signed and dated 'Edith Hayllar 1895.' (lower right) and inscribed 'Five O'clock tea/[N]o 2 /Miss Edith Hayllar/Castle Priory/Wallingford.' (on the artist's label attached to the strecher)
oil on canvas
18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.5 cm.)
Sold with the original artist's receipt to the first purchaser for £31.10.

London, Royal Academy, 1895. no. 132.

C. Wood, Victorian Painters, Suffolk, 1995, p. 235.