LOT 106
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Lot 106
WILLIAM EDWARD MILLNER (British 1849-1895)
A Tickly Situation
Oil on canvas
Signed with monogram lower left
18 inches x 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm)
Estimate:
$4,000 - 7,000
€ 3,000 - 5,200
Provenance:
Sotheby’s London, November 3, 1993, Lot 108
William Edward Millner was known primarily as a painter of rustic genre scenes and animals, especially horses. He lived all his life in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire (East Midlands). His father, who had the same forenames and who died in 1870, was also a local artist and teacher exhibiting two pictures at the British Institution in 1845. Millner exhibited eleven pictures at the Royal Academy between 1869 and 1896 (the last posthumously). Nearly all were genre scenes inspired by the day-to-day life of the Lincolnshire farming community as well as scenes related to his proximity to the North Sea. He is represented in the Tate by a single picture, A Wayside Gossip, dated 1872, and there are a number of paintings at the Gainsborough Old Hall Museum in his native town. The present work, which depicts a mother resting after gathering berries whilst her daughter tickles her nose with a sprig of grass, is delicately handled and sensitive in feeling and light, clearly exhibiting Pre-Raphaelite influence.
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