Lot 299: Everton Sainsbury (1849-1885)

Hope and Memory. 'Linked by soft strains, etc.'
signed and dated 'Everton Sainsbury. 1883.' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed 'Hope & Memory Everton Sainsbury/8 St Marks Buildings George St Grosvenor Sqre' (on a label adhered to the reverse)
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm.)

London, Royal Academy, 1883, no. 557.
Nottingham, City Museum and Art Gallery (according to an old label adhered to the reverse).

A regular exhibitor at the Academy (1878-85), Grosvenor and Suffolk Street (Royal Society of British Artists) Galleries, we know frustratingly little of Everton Sainsbury. His titles suggest romantic genre of an evocative character: Castles in the Air (1882) and A glimpse of the unknown. Child of the east end of London seeing butterflies for the first time. (1885), to name a few. Here Youth and Age are presented in sympathy, both contemplating scenes to which nostalgia or idealism have lent the pall of romance.

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