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37
THE LANDLORD'S FUNERAL
1916
WILLIAM
SHACKLETON, N.E.A.C.
1872 - 1933
Oil
on paper, 23.5 x 29 (9.25 x 11.5)
Signed
and dated, Wm. Shackleton / 16 (lower right)
Provenance:
possibly acquired from the artist by Cecil French.
Undertakers
load a coffin into a horse-drawn hearse at the door of a country
pub while mourners and villagers look on. The lane before
the Inn winds off to the right into a hilly landscape.
This
painting probably belongs to Shackleton's category of "naturalistic"
subjects which he contrasted with "imaginative"
works and "landscapes painted direct from nature".
He exhibited A Farmer's funeral in the Yorkshire Highlands
at Barbizon House, 1927 (32) and The Landlord's Funeral may
also have been painted in North Yorkshire where his family
owned a farm near Gordale Scar. After 1918 he acquired a holiday
cottage at Malham Cove.
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