Flower Painting
1868
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1868
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Flower Painting is a 1868 oil by Frederick Bacon Barwell, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a group of women in a garden. Some are sitting on a bench, others stand or lean against a stone wall. They wear fancy dresses with lace and ribbons, and one woman holds a basket of flowers. The background has trees, a fence, and a distant building with people walking. The women seem relaxed, like they’re enjoying a sunny afternoon. The artist paid close attention to the details in their clothes and the flowers, making them look real. If you like this scene, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see it in person.
A painting from 1868 by Frederick Bacon Barwell depicts seven female figures outdoors, with a centrally placed arrangement of lilies and a tree. The artist's signature and the date appear in the lower right corner. Commissioned for the lunette-shaped recesses of the National Competition Gallery’s upper walls, it was conserved and reinstalled in its original location in 2010 after being stored during the Second World War. The gallery, completed in 1864–65, served as a display and judging space for art students, with its decorative lunettes created in stages between 1863 and 1876 under the…
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Frederick Bacon Barwell (1831–1922) was an artist, born in Norwich.
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