Lot 25: George Spencer Watson, R.A., R.W.S., R.O.I. (1869-1934)

George Spencer Watson, R.A., R.W.S., R.O.I. (1869-1934)
A picnic at Portofino, 1911
inscribed 'A picnic at Portofino, 1911, by George Spencer Watson, R.A.'
oil on canvas
23¾ x 32 in. (60.4 x 81.2 cm.)

London, Hampstead Gallery, 1926.
Dorchester, Dorset County Museum, Southampton Civic Art Gallery, and Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; George Spencer Watson, 1981-2, no. 7.

The artist, and by descent to his daughter, Mary Spencer Watson.

SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS OF THE LATE MARY SPENCER WATSON
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A wonderfully evocative scene, as might be described in the novels of Henry James or Edith Wharton, of a party picnicing beside the Mediterranean to escape the cold of an English winter.