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A boy and two horses
O/c 14.5 x 17.5. Sgd BL. A boy on a dark horse moving left, with a white horse on his far side; at left is a gabled farm building. Lay P 6 June 1996 (145 illus).
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A girl in a red dress
O/c 19 x 15. Sgd; perhaps mid-1930s. Head and shoulder view of a young woman in a sleeveless blouse with wide-open collar, looking left, her arms folded. The Notebook records “The Red Dress (Joan) 20 x 16”. SL 1 Mar 1989 (76 illus); Lane P 12 July 1990 (209 ni, as Portrait of a girl in a red dress); WL.
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A seated gentleman
Pencil sketch 18.5 x 11.5. Lay P 6 Oct 1988 (29 ni). |
After a storm
O/c 25 x 30. Sgd BR in black; 1930s. Damaged trees in a park-landscape, and farm buildings in the distance at right. CL 28 Nov 1996 (75 illus). |
At the watering hole
O/c 16 x 12. Sgd BL. In the foreground a boy on a white horse moving towards us rides through a pool; behind at left are more horses, and beyond them are trees and buildings. SL 13 May 1992 (1); PHGM 2001 (24). |
Blowing dandelions
O/c 18 x 16.25. Sgd BR; indis dtd; c1902. In the foreground a young girl sits on a grassy hillside, facing left, in a white smock over a black dress and with a red bow tied to her left plait; to the left sits another child wearing a blue striped hat and blue jacket; behind lies a distant landscape of fields and hills. CL 9 June 1988 (13 illus). |
By the sea
O/c 22 x 26. Sgd. A different size to the 1917 work of this title. BhL 1 May 1975 (27 ni). |
Children on the quay, Newlyn
O/c 15 x 18. Early style. In the foreground at left a boy in a white shirt sits facing half-right, his left leg outstretched with bare foot, pulling a sock onto his right foot; at right a young girl in a white cap and red shirt under a dark dress leans against something, looking left at the boy; in the middle distance are several figures along the quay edge; at TL is the lighthouse and at TR the Old Quay. Lay P 17 Apr 1986 (322 illus, as Children on the beach); PL 8 Mar 1988 (5 illus). |
Cornish cottages
O/c 14.5 x 17.5. Sgd BL in red; c1905 or earlier. At right is a row of cottages in sunlight; in a doorway a woman in pink dress and red cap stands knitting and a young girl sits in the road before her; at left, in the distance, are a woman at a pump and a man standing. PHGM 2001 (39). |
Daffodils
O/c 30 x 25. Sgd. A larger work than the 1917 and 1927 works of this title. Debenham Coe, London 10 May 1972 (45). |
Daisies
Sgd BR. c1902. In the foreground centre, a young girl in white dress, bare feet, sits in shade on a pebble shore; behind at left, in sunshine, are girls in yellow and red dresses; in the distance is blue sea with a rowing boat at TR. Wortley p.282 illus. |
The family
The Studio March 1942, where Nichols described it as “a modernised version of the flight into Egypt”. Perhaps the same as ‘The Flight’ (c1926). |
Feeding chickens
O/c 16 x 12. Sgd BL, c1912. In the right foreground a man in a cap and white shirt, facing left, holds a bowl in his left hand; with his right hand he gives food to a chicken and many chicks; beyond a girl sits on a picket fence; at left is a farmhouse with two chimney stacks. PL 13 Nov 1984 (59 illus, prov. QHP); WL. |
Feeding time
O/c 12 x 16. Sgd BL; early style. In a sunny meadow a young man at left wearing a pointed cap and white shirt sits on an upturned basket; before him is a trough into which he pours feed from a metal pail; several pigs eat at the trough and more approach from centre-right. WL. |
Fields of flowers. O/c 16 x 14. Sgd BR, dtd indis 19.. Probably c1912. Two young girls lie in a flowery meadow; the left girl wears a blue blouse under a grey smock and a straw hat; she looks at the right girl who wears a pale dress and a white bow in her hair and has bare feet; at BR is her hat with a coloured band. CL 16 June 2005 (139 illus). |
Fine morning, Sennen
O/c 24 x 31.5. Sgd BR. An extensive view of the beach at Whitesand Bay, with Aire Point on the horizon; in the foreground, seagulls walk on the sand or fly over the surf. |
Flowers before a window
O/p 6 x 4. A pair, each sgd. Lay P 2 Sep 1987 (156 ni); Lay P 14 Dec 1989 (83 ni); Lay P 29 Mar 1990 (134 ni). |
Four fishing boats in harbour
O/c. Sgd BL in black. At left are four boats, two numbered PZ476 and (indis) PZ206. |
Gathering snowdrops
O/c 19.75 x 23.75. Sgd BL; early style. Three girls in an open woodland; the right girl wears a purple smock over a pale blouse, holding a basket on her left arm, her two hands clasping a small bunch of flowers; the centre girl has a red hat (or red hair?) lies on the ground leaning on her elbows, hands cupping her face, looking at the left girl; the left girl has a pale smock over an olive-brown dress and sits on the ground looking at the centre girl. Perhaps MG 1913 as First snowdrops of the year; S Chester 12 July 1985 (3301). |
Gertrude in the garden
O/cb 9.5 x 13.5. Sgd BL. This sketch may be related to Portrait of the artist’s wife (1916). A woman seated in a deck chair, with a blue hat and green dress, facing right, with foliage behind; painted loosely. SWS 23 May 1989 (588 illus). |
Girl in a landscape
O/c 11 x 17. Sgd BL in black; c1910. A woman standing right faces the viewer, her left hand on hip, holding a bucket in her right hand; at left is a white and black horse; behind it is a fire with figures round it and a gypsy caravan. Whitford Fine Art. |
Girl in a meadow
O/c 21 x 17. PL 16 May 1986 (249). |
Girl with goats, Newlyn
O/c 25 x 30. Sgd BL; indis dtd 90 (?). In a meadow overlooking the dark blue sea, a young woman stands at right facing right, holding in her arms a kid goat; a young goat stands by her right foot, and an older goat stands at left. |
Girl with goats
O/c 15 x 18. Sgd BL; c1905. In a meadow overlooking the dark blue sea, a young woman stands at right facing right, holding in her arms a kid goat; a young goat stands by her right foot, and an older goat stands at left. This appears to be a smaller version of Girl with goats, Newlyn. The woman is Adeline Mary Harvey; given by the artist to her. CL 11 Mar 1994 (1 illus). WL. |
Gretcha at the duckpond
O/c 15 x 18. Sgd BL. Inscr with title on the frame. c1902. Probably painted at Tredavoe duck pond. At right a young girl in a purple dress sits on the stream bank facing left, watching ducks swimming. SL 11 Nov 1987 (21 illus); BITPI (88 illus, as Greta at the duckpond); WL |
Grey autumn, Mousehole
O/b 20.5 x 28. Sgd. Lane P 28 Nov 1978 (231 ni). |
Half portrait of an attractive young lady
O/c 19 x 15. Sgd. Lane P 5 Dec 1989 (243 ni). |
Harvest time.
O/c 12 x 16. Sgd BR; title inscr on stretcher. CL 20 June 1996 (59). |
Harrowing
O/c 12 x 16. Sgd BL, c1912; title inscr on the stretcher. At right a man in a white hat and shirt and dark clothes follows two brown horses moving left pulling a harrow; crows fly over the field; beyond are fields and trees below a dark grey sky. PL 13 Nov 1984 (61 illus, prov. QHP); PL 2 June 1992 (25 illus); BL 30 Nov 2004 (9 illus). WL. |
Haulers on a country road, Newlyn
O/c 30 x 36. Apparently not sgd; c1920. A rutted road with telegraph poles occupies the centre foreground and rises towards us; a cart pulled by two horses led by a man, with a dog alongside, comes up the hill; another cart follows; both carts carry a white cargo; at left is a field with a stone gate pillar; the scene is sunlit but wintry, the trees leafless, and signs of snow on the road; in the background fields rise up the opposite slope of the valley, a hamlet at left; the sky is cloudy with blue patches. CL 5 Mar 1999 (77 illus, prov. sold CL 10 Dec 1926 (19) for £26-5s). |
Homewards, Buryas bridge
O/c 12 x 14. c1908. A full stream occupies the left foreground; at right a man on a white horse moves away left; a dog follows by the nearside rear hoof; they have just passed a white gate by which a figure stands at right. DMG 1988 (99 illus). |
In the stable yard
O/c 14 x 12. Sgd BL. A man on a white horse moving right; farm buildings are behind and at right; beyond are trees. LWG Mar 1982 (37 illus); CL 15 Apr 1981 (202 ni, as Horseman in farmyard). |
In the whiting grounds
O/c 30 x 24. Sgd BR, c1900. In a small dinghy at sea, seen stern on, a young man facing left stands at the stern with line in his hands; an older man with beard and pale jersey leans against the starboard side with a line in his hands; behind him an oar lies over the side; there are sailing boats at TL. BBC Antiques Roadshow, Barnstable Oct 2000; Homes & Antiques Nov 2000, p.69 (illus); PHGM 2001 (1); PHMG acquired 2006. |
Interior study of a young girl sitting on a wooden Cornish window seat
O/c 14 x 17. Sgd. Peter Wilson, Nantwich 30 April 2003 (56). |
Interior
O/b 18 x 22. Sgd BR. A bowl of mainly yellow flowers upon a table before an open window looking onto a tiled roof. Perhaps RA 1935 (410); SL 22 July 1987 (13 illus). |
Jug of Spring flowers.
O/c 19 x 15. Sgd. Lane P 5 Oct 2006 (35). |
Landing the catch
O/c 12 x 18. Sgd BL, said to be dtd but none given. Many figures occupy the right foreground; at left is a dinghy; in the distance is a sailing boat and at right the Nor’rad Slip. DMG Autumn 1974 (30 illus). |
Lands End
O/b 21.5 x 18. Sgd. In the foreground is a rocky headland, the sea at left; at TR is a suggestion of the Longships lighthouse. Lane P 6 Apr 1978 (221 illus); Lane P 4 Dec 1980 (382 ni). |
Lilac doll
O/c 15 x 18. Sgd. c1904. Plymouth Gallery label on reverse. Three children in a meadow; at left foreground sits a young girl with plaits, in cap and coat, sits on the grass looking out; her left hand holds the doll; behind, at right, are two other girls, one sitting with flowers in her hands, the other lying with face cupped in her hands. Lay P 15 June 2000 (570 illus). |
Looking inland : a view near Penzance
O/c 15.75 x 21.75. Sgd; early 1920s; inscr on the stretcher. A path leads out of a field through an open gate, past trees at right, into a distant landscape of fields. SL 14 July 1982 (30 illus); WL. |
Low tide
O/p 19 x 24. Bearnes, Torquay 1 Sep 1989 (294). |
Madonna of the bridges
PIN p.83 (ni), which describes it as in neo-Renaissance style showing a madonna and child with Newlyn Coombe in the background. |
Man ploughing a field
c1900. At right a man walks behind a plough led by two large brown horses at left. BAL SGC56694. |
Man with cap
Pencil sketch on paper c15 x 19. Three-quarter length view of a man facing half-left, in a buttoned jacket, seated with his left hand on knee; he smokes a cigarette; the head is the most detailed area. PL 6 June 2000 (202 ni). |
Marbles.
O/c 12 x 18. Sgd BL in brown. On a path beside the sea four children play marbles; at left two lean against a fence, at centre a boy in a red jumper throws a marble towards four others; at right a boy stands with hands on knees; left of the fence is a meadow and in the middle distance are tall trees and factories with chimneys; beyond is Penzance and a patch of sea. RGG May 2008 (SP4661, as c1905). |
Mending the nets, Newlyn
O/c 14 x 17. Sgd BL, c1909. A man sits on a lobster pot with his back to the viewer; at right another man holds a red-brown net; at left a man in a white smock sits on the rim of a dinghy; behind is a harbour scene. BAL TAY45180 (as Newlyn harbour: mending the nets); Lay P 17 Apr 1986 (321 illus, as Fishermen mending nets at Newlyn); CL 5 Mar 1987 (44 illus); WL. |
Midge Bruford and fiance, Coombe Hill, Newlyn
O/c 28 x 24.5. Sgd BL in red; early 1920s. In the foreground a woman in a white dress stands this side of a broad metal gate, her back to the viewer and facing right; on the other side of the gate, a man in dark clothes stands at left and faces the woman; beyond are many trees rising up the hillside, with blue sky above; the top frame intersects two patches of foliage. Marjorie Frances Bruford was a close friend of Mornie Birch, and was known as Midge. She attended the Harvey-Procter School from August 1923. She was painted by Dod Procter as ‘Indolence’ (RA 1932, no. 643). The fiance was the artist Richard Copeland Weatherby (1881-1953), who exhibited at RA, NEAC and Alpine Gallery 1922-1953; he lived several years in Cornwall, and was of the famous horse racing family. PL 14 June 1988 (16 illus); Sworder, Bishops Stortford 11 June 2002 (1252); CL 21 Nov 2003 (35 illus); BhL 14 Nov 2006 (221 illus, as Midge Bruford and her fiancé at Chywoone Hill, Newlyn). |
Monnow mill
O/c 16 x 22. Sgd BL in red; perhaps 1930s. A calm stream flows in the foreground, the left bank filled with trees; a weir breaches the right bank and behind is the mill house; at the right edge are tall trees. Reproduced by Frost & Reed 1939. The river Monnow flows through Monmouth, and this work was perhaps done at the same time as ‘The poplars, Monmouth’. |
Mother and child
O/c 14 x 12. Sgd, indis dtd; c1905. A woman sits on a field wall facing left, in a blue blouse and white apron, holding a child on her lap; the child faces the viewer and wears a whitish bonnet and clothing; behind is a green meadow with trees. SL 11 Mar 1992 (31). |
Mother and child
O/c 23 x 19. CL 25 Jan 1978 (79). |
Mother and child
O/c 27 x 20. Sgd BL in black. At left a young woman in a green dress leans over an awake baby lying in a cradle with finials at head and foot and a pitched roof at the head; the cradle covers are white; behind are shadowy indications of a room, and perhaps the parents’ bed; the colours are mostly dark brown. The woman resembles that in ‘Tired out’. SL 3 July 2002 (10 illus); Online Gallery June 2008, as At the end of the day. |
Mrs Algernon Newton
O/p 8 x 4.5. Sgd BR; c1913. A half-length figure facing slightly right, in an olive- green dress, reading a book held in both hands. The sitter was the first wife of Algernon Cecil Newton (1880-1968) who was a successful landscape painter (RA 1943); he married Marjorie Emelia Balfour Rider in 1903, and their four children included Robert Guy Newton (1905-1956), a famous actor. In 1918 Newton lived at Bodrigy, near Lamorna. PHGM 2001 (101). |
Newlyn harbour looking towards Penzance
O/b 12 x 13.75. Sgd BL in black. Perhaps c1900. In the foreground a small steam ship lies within the Old Quay; beyond are sailing ships moored in calm waters; the dominant colour is the pale blue water. PL 17 June 1997 (8 illus). WL. |
Newlyn old harbour
O/c 11.5 x 15.5. Undated. At right is the old quay, with Penzance fishing boats in the foreground; beyond is Tolcarne and the Lidden. Lane P 22 Oct 1976 (100 illus). |
On the quayside
O/c 14 x 17. Sgd BL. In the foreground is a brown horse in a cart with red shafts; a boy sits on the driving seat, holding the reins, talking to a young woman standing at left, who wears a yellow blouse, black skirt and white apron; she holds a large child in her arms; beyond is a harbour, and at right three men lean against railings; the sky is blue; the brush strokes are fluid, sometimes thickly applied. SL 4 July 2001 (5 illus). |
Paul, near Penzance
O/c 18 x 22. Sgd BL in brown. At BL a brown and white calf grazes at the edge of a lane; behind it a man lying on the wall-hedge talks to a woman with a blue blouse in the lane with a child in blue clothes beside her; beyond her is an older man; at TL is the tower of Paul church; the sky is pale blue. Church Street Gallery, Stow on the Wold 1979; SL 13 Dec 2005 (70 illus). |
Picking cauliflowers
O/c 20 x 18. Sgd BL; c1914. In a field of cauliflowers, at right is a horse and two-wheeled cart being loaded by two figures; at left a man carries a laden basket on his back toward the cart; in the distance are fields and farmhouses; the cloudy sky fills more than half the picture. PL 14 June 1988 (15 illus); DMG 1988 (98 illus). |
Picking daffodils
O/c 17.5 x 13.75. Sgd BR in black; c1910-12. At left stands a young girl in a white dress and green bonnet holding a basket laden with flowers; at right her mother (?) in a white dress and red headscarf bends down to pick them; white and yellow daffodils are all around them. SL 27 June 2006 (70 illus); RGG May 2008 (SP4391, as Spring in the orchard, narcissus, as c1912). |
Ploughing
O/c 11 x 17. Bearnes, Exeter 4 July 2006 (363). |
Ploughing
25.25 x 30. Perhaps the same as ‘Ploughing’ (1921). PL 18 Sep 1990 (26). |
Portrait of a girl
Head and shoulder view of a girl facing left with shoulder-length brown hair and a dark dress or jacket with white markings. BAL. JDV37138. |
Portrait of a woman reading
O/c 22 x 17.75. Sgd BR in red; late 1930s. At left a woman in a green dress and red neck scarf sits facing right reading a book open on her lap; above her is a mirror reflecting her head; at right a tankard holding brushes is on a window cill, suggesting she is an artist or a model; through the window is a yellowish house. On the verso is ‘Woman in an armchair’, similar to the recto work. PL 10 Mar 1987 (35 illus); PL 15 Sep 1987 (36 ni); Lay P 2 June 1994 (300 illus, as Gertrude reading); PHGM 2001 (56, as Gertrude Harvey – the artist’s wife). |
Portrait study of a lady in red
O/c 20 x 15. Sgd; perhaps mid-1930s. Perhaps related to ‘A girl in a red dress’. Biddle & Wells, Birmingham 1 May 1992 (406b). |
Preliminary sketch for a portrait of a gentleman
O/p 18 x 12. Lay P 26 Feb 1987 (337 ni). |
Seaweed gatherers
O/c 18 x 20. Sgd BL in black. Perhaps 1918-22. At centre two brown horses in single file stand before a two wheeled cart heavily laden with seaweed; a young man with a red scarf stands on top of the pile, raking; at left stands another young man holding up a gathering on a pole or rake; a patch of greenery is at BL, above the signature; the blue sea laps on the beach; in the distance at left is a town with a pink tower under a blue spire or cupola; at right is St Michael’s Mount and hazy land on the horizon; the sky is clear blue. BL 30 Nov 2004 (8 illus). |
Siesta
O/b 21 x 21. A smaller work than the ‘Siesta’ at Royal Leamington Spa; perhaps a study for it. SWS 15 Dec 1982 (1502a, ni). |
Sketching on the quay
Black chalk and w/c 9.5 x 6.25. Sgd BR. At BL a man in hat and belted jacket sits facing left with his back to the viewer; a brush is visible; at right stands a girl in a pale dress with square neck, watching the man. PL 17 June 1986 (25a); PL 16 June 1987 (22). |
Sport on the shore – a crab race
O/c 12 x 16. Sgd BL; inscr on the stretcher ‘Sport on the Shore by Harold Harvey’. Date estimated as 1890 by Cross. Two boys wearing hats half lying on the jetty watch two crabs; beyond is blue sea with children paddling. Cross p.170 illus; PHGM 2001 (2). Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery 1964.21, donated from a private collection in 1964. |
Steady – boys fishing off Newlyn
O/c 40 x 50. Sgd BR, and inscr. Three boys in a dinghy off Newlyn; the left boy sits at the stern holding the rudder; the centre boy stands with a line in his left hand; the right boy kneels with a grappling hook in his right hand; in the boat is a basket of fish. Lay P 22 June 1989 (519 illus, prov. purchased from the artist c1906). |
Still life of daffodils and narcissi in a white jug
O/c 20 x 16. Sgd BR in red; c1930. A pale blue-grey jug with a floral motif on its side and handle to the left, stands on a circular greenish table; the background is pale blue-grey; the white and yellow flowers touch the right edge of the frame and almost touch the left and top edges; the light comes from the left. CL 19 June 1997 (169 illus); BhL 12 Mar 2002 (7 illus as Daffodils and narcissi). WL |
Still life, a vase of flowers
O/p 5.5 x 4. A pair. Sgd. Lay P 26 Feb 1987 (496, 497 ni). |
Taking a rest
O/c 20 x 24. Sgd. PL 23 Apr 1985 (28 ni). |
Tea time
O/c 30 x 25. Sgd BL; c1920. A view of a room; at left is a table against the wall, set for tea; at centre a woman in a long yellow cardigan starts a gramophone; at left, beyond the table, a maid appears in a doorway; in the foreground a stool is on a striped a carpet; at right a cat sits by French windows; the colours are muted. DMG pub. V (62 illus); SWS 28 July 1983 (2802a); SL 23 May 1984 (28 illus); CL 7 June 1985 (9); BITPI (62 illus); WL. |
Team ploughing
O/b 11 x 18. Joel, Melbourne 7 Nov 1980 (1266). |
The apple orchard
O/c 18 x 20. Sgd. A girl in the foreground of an orchard, and several others at right. DMG Autumn 1974 (27 illus). |
The balcony, Newlyn
O/c 10 x 12. Sgd BL. At the top of open, sloping ground is a terrace of houses; at centre of these a large storey with one window projects and is supported by two brick and plaster pillars; in the foreground is a young child facing right and in a white smock. The building was demolished in the pre-war slum clearance. PHGM 2001 (29). |
The blackberry harvest
O/c 16 x 14. Sgd BR in black. c1908. Inscr on the canvas overlap ‘Blackberry Harvest Harold Harvey’. In the left foreground of a grassy meadow, two women move right with a young girl between them; the nearest figure has a blue sleeve and a red headscarf; the child wears a cream hat; behind at left is another woman; each woman carries a basket; behind them are trees and blue sky (or sea?). CL 21 Nov 1995 (96 illus); CL 22 Nov 2006 (278 illus).
; CL 5 June 2008 (21 illus). WL. |
The carpenter’s shop
O/c 12 x 14. Sgd BL in red and verso. In a dark room a man facing us, wearing cap and rolled shirt sleeves, planes a length of wood on a bench; on the bench are tools and shavings; behind him is a window. Ritchie, Toronto 28 May 1996 (164a); Lawrence, Crewkerne 10 Oct 1996 (191, as Carpenter’s Workshop); PHGM 2001 (34). |
The family
The Studio March 1942, where Nichols described it as “a modernised version of the flight into Egypt is more than noteworthy. |
The farmer’s boy
O/c 18 x 18. Sgd BR in red. A boy in white shirt and khaki shorts, grey socks and brown boots rests on a horizontal tree trunk; behind is a meadow and at left a metal gate; the boy almost fills the height of the canvas. PL 11 Nov 1986 (115 illus, as A corner of the garden); Lay P 2 Sep 1987 (338 illus, as A corner of the green); Lane P 14 Apr 1988 (30 illus as The farmer’s boy). |
The fishmarket, Newlyn
The Notebook records “Fishmarket, Newlyn, 30 x 25”. Mentioned in The Studio March 1942. |
The fond farewell
O/c 30 x 25. Initialled HH, BL. c1902. On a sunny shore, at left a young woman in a white dress stands facing right waving a handkerchief; at right a young woman in white sits with hands clasped round her knees looking at the other woman. CL 12 Nov 1987 (92 illus); BITPI (89 illus as Out to sea); WL |
The front, Newlyn
O/c 15 x 18. Sgd BL; c1905 or earlier. A view of Fore Street, Newlyn; the grocery shop was (1997) The Smugglers Restaurant. A wet road leads to the centre of the painting, flanked at left by shops; one advertises Lyons Tea and four small children look through its window. At right is a railing, to the right of which is the sea; in the middle distance people walk or stand in the road. PL 29 Jan 1991 (30 illus). |
The little mother
O/c 18 x 21.5. Sgd BR; title inscr on verso. A girl in a large straw hat with a dark blue band looks at the viewer; her arms hold a baby facing left with white clothes; behind is a whitewashed wall with a doorjamb at far right. MAGN 2001 (47). |
The midday rest
O/c approx 20 x 24, on the reverse of ‘In the kitchen’ (1918); c1905-1910. At centre-left a young woman sits on grass facing right, in black feathered hat, red scarf, white blouse and dark blue skirt; at TR sits a boy; at far left are elements of another figure; the tone is dark. PL 25 Nov 1997 (11 ni). |
The old forge
O/c 24 x 20. Sgd BL; c1900. Inside a forge the blacksmith works at the anvil; two men stand at right beneath two windows; the overall tone is dark. PL 12 Nov 1985 (89 illus); CL 12 June 1986 (90 illus). |
The rushing stream
O/c 18 x 16. Sgd BL; undated. In the foreground a stream flows at great force; behind is the bank with leafless trees. PHGM 2001 (27). |
The sunbathers
O/c 20 x 22. Sgd BL. On a grey beach boy lies stretched out, his head at left, in white hat and shorts, his right knee raised; at right a younger nude boy sits facing the viewer, his hands clasping his left knee; beyond are large rocks and blue sea. PL 14 June 1988 (17 illus); Lane P 28 Feb 1989 (240 illus, as Two boys sunbathing on rocky Cornish shore); SL 8 Nov 1989 (23 illus, as 18 x 20, as Boys on a beach); WL. |
The tired girl
Shown at Newlyn November 1937. The Cornishman of 18 Nov 1937 wrote “Mr Harvey has excelled himself again as a portrait painter, and there can be nothing but admiration for his ‘The tired girl’”. |
The turnip cart
O/c 24 x 30. On the reverse is a still life of flowers attributed to Gertrude Harvey. SWS 24 Oct 1995 (280). |
The watering place
O/c 32 x 22. Inscr. in pencil on stretcher reverse. c1905. A man sits on a horse facing left, which crosses a small pool; behind are ducks at left and fields at right. Bonhams West 28 Nov 1991 (444 illus). |
The watering place
O/c 20 x 18. Sgd BR. c1905. A man in white shirt and dark cap sits on a brown horse drinking from a pool, with another horse behind. CL 15 Mar 1985 (27 illus); BhL 22 July 1993 (1); WL. |
Thomas Harvey
O/c 14 x 12. Head and shoulder view of a boy, who lived at 3 Lynn Terrace, Newlyn. Lane P 27 Mar 1990 (527 ni); Lane P 2 July 1990 (626 ni); CL 15 July 1998 (15 illus); Lane P 25 Oct 2001 (160). |
Three boys with pumpkin lantern
Small size. Shown at the BBC Antiques Roadshow, Salisbury 1990. |
Three fishermen
O/c 11.5 x 15.5. Sgd BL in black. In a small dinghy, a young man in a white jersey sits at the stern facing right; at centre a man in a dark blue jersey stands with both hands holding a line which has caught a fish; at right another man in a dark blue jersey leans over the starboard bow; a pile of fish lie between the left and centre men. PHGM 2001 (4, as Whiffing in Mount’s Bay, as dated 1906); MAGN 2001 (70, as dated 1904); Lane P 30 May 2002 (220, as c1889). |
Tired out
O/c 18 x 15. Sgd BR (underlined). Inscr Harold Harvey on label on reverse. c1910. A woman in yellow blouse and white skirt, facing left, holds in her arms a young girl with a white smock over a dark dress; in the background are orchard trees, with red blossom at upper left. LG 1927 (27); PIN p.129 illus, no.68; PHGM 2001 (47); WL |
Trout stream
O/c 20 x 19. Lawrence, Crewkerne 4 Nov 1982 (264). |
Tug of war
O/c 12 x 15. Sgd BL; c1909. Inscr on a label on the frame. At centre right, sits a girl in a cream hat, white smock and red dress, holding one end of a rope; another girl is beside her at right; at left sits a boy in white hat and clothes, holding the other end of the rope; behind him are two boys, one with fair hair; the scene is a grassy area before a beach, with the sea and coast beyond. Perhaps RA 1910 (727) and WAGL 1910 (1057, price £150) (both Tug of war); PL 14 June 1988 (13 illus, as A test of strength); DMG 1988 (100 illus, as A trial of strength). |
Two girls gathering faggots
O/c 20 x 22. Sgd BL; early style. In a copse, a girl in the foreground faces left wearing a white blouse and a coloured headscarf, holding a bundle of wood wrapped in a cloth; behind her, at left, another girl bends to the ground, her right arm outstretched. The woods at Higher Faughan were a source of faggots. Perhaps shown at the Mendoza Galleries 1913 as ‘Faggot gatherers’, which was reviewed as among the best of his pictures there. CL 11 June 1982 (5 illus). |
Two shire horses and ploughman heading homeward at dusk on a country lane
O/c 7.5 x 16. Lane P 16 Oct 1986 (527 ni). |
Under sixteen
O/c 13.5 x 15.5. Sgd BL in black; c1906. Title inscr on reverse. A young boy stands centre, facing the viewer, a lit cigarette in his mouth; he wears a cap and dark blue jersey, and carries a basket of green vegetables over his left arm; behind is a white house. PHGM 2001 (18). |
View from a meadow
O/c 18 x 24. Sgd BR (?) and indis dtd. Perhaps mid-1930s. A meadow with many wild flowers; at right is a house and well-head; very diffusely painted. SL 13 May 1987 (133 illus); WL. |
View of a Cornish village
O/c 15.5 x 17.5. Sgd indis BL; c1915. In the right foreground a narrow lane bordered by reddish hedges leads over a hillside towards autumnal trees; a house lies at left and at far left is a tall red chimney; in the middle distance rises the tower of St Pol de Leon at Paul, which has a corner beacon tower; above is a large pale blue cloudscape; the landscape is in muted colours. St Pol de Leon is the parish church of Mousehole; the tower rises 86 feet. CL 12 June 1987 (123a illus); Lane P 12 July 1990 (360 illus, as Farmstead above Paul village, Newlyn); Lane P 27 Sep 1990 (252 illus); CL 24 Nov 2000 (5 illus, as A view of Paul, Newlyn, Cornwall). WL. |
Village of Eggbuckland, Devon
O/c 19 x 24. Lane P 17 May 1996 (205 ni). |
When day’s end is nigh
O/c 15.75 x 17.75. Sgd BL indis. Early style. At left in a meadow a young woman in a white smock moves right carrying a young child in red cap, white dress and brown shoes; right of her walks an older girl in white cap, blouse and dark skirt carrying a bunch of flowers in her left hand; behind at right are three small figures, one in a yellow hat. SWS 25 July 1989 (600 illus). |
Winter sunshine
O/c 11.5 x 11.5. Sgd BL. A young man on a white horse approaching the viewer across a pool; beyond are farm buildings and trees; at left is a man with two horses at the edge of the pool. Lay P 8 Nov 1990 (390 illus). |
Woman reading in a garden
O/c 14 x 18. Not signed; c1900. At right, a woman wearing a hat and striped dress sits reading a book in a sunny, colourful garden beside a pale house. PIN p.128 illus, no.65; PL 21 Nov 2000 (10 illus); PHGM 2001 (79); WL. |
Woodcutters
O/c 25 x 30. Sgd. BhL 22 July 1993 (17). |
Young girl looking out to sea
O/c 20 x 16. Init; late 1920s. In the foreground a girl with a long plait down her back tied with a ribbon, sits on rocks facing right, her right hand resting on the rock; beyond are the sea and coast; the sky is cloudy. All the motifs are thickly painted and lack detail, like a sketch. CL 7 June 1990 (157 illus); Lane P 12 July 1990 (410 ni, as Girl seated on the rocks overlooking Mounts Bay, Cornwall); Lane P 27 Sep 1990 (45 illus); Lane P 10 Oct 1991 (212 ni, as Young girl seated on rocks). |
Young girls on a cliff top
O/c 18 x 15. Sgd BL; c1910. In a meadow with white flowers, a young girl reclines in the foreground on her left side, facing the viewer, her right arm covering her face; behind her at left sits an older woman in a white dress, her left arm supporting her, looking at the reclining girl; beyond at right a very young girl in white smock and red hat stands looking at the others; in the background at left is a pale flowering shrub; beyond are the sea and coast. CL 6 Mar 1992 (1 illus); WL |
Young girls on seashore
O/c 19.5 x 17.5. PL 16 June 1969 (64). Perhaps the same as ‘A quiet paddle’. |
Young sailors
O/c 14 x 16. Sgd BR. In a white dinghy are three boys; the left boy with white hat holds an oar as a rudder over the stern; the middle boy is in the prow, watching the right boy who leans over the side holding a toy sailing boat in the water; beyond are two sailing boats with red sails, and a low coast; the sea is calm with clear reflections of the dinghy. Christies New York 7 April 2006 (102 illus). |
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