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signed and titled to the reverse oil on canvas (Dimensions: 49 x 75 cm)

(49 x 75 cm)

Footnote: Inscribed on the reverse is Lord Byron's poem: "But Arno wins us to the fair white walls, Where the Etrurian Athens claims and keeps, A softer feeling for her fairy walls, Girt by her theatre of hills, she reaps Her corn, and wine, and oil and plenty leaps To Laughing life, with her redundant horn Along the banks where smiling Arno sweeps." Sydney Herbert studied in the 1880s at the Royal Academy Schools, where he won two Silver Medals, and he exhibited one painting at the Academy in 1900. He also exhibited at the Suffolk Street Gallery of the Royal Society of British Artists (8 paintings from 1880-1900), the Royal Society of Painters in Oils, and the New Gallery. His work is in the Walker Art Gallery, the Manchester City Art Gallery, the Liverpool Gallery, and the Dudley Gallery.

Condition report: Oil on canvas which is unlined with an artists' suppliers stamp on the reverse and inscription by the artist of the painting. The canvas is slightly slack. The paint layer has developed a network of age cracks. Overall the paint layer is in a good condition. There is a thin varnish layer which is semi-glossy, even and slightly yellowed. The frame is in a good condition, there are a few small losses to the gilded surface.

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