Provenance
The Artist's Estate
Note: John Brakewell (Brake) Baldwin, 1885-1915 enrolled at the Heatherley School of Fine Art aged 21. Distinguished alumni of Heatherleys also included Rosetti, Poynter, and Burne-Jones amongst others.
In 1911 he married fellow student Edith Wilson, moving to Kensington and building a studio in the garden at 6 Phillimore Terrace. This move precipitated Baldwin's most productive years of artistic output - between 1912 and 1914 he exhibited widely alongside Orpen, Lavery and Sargent at the Royal Institute of Painters and alongside Philpot, Augustus John and Sickert at the National Portrait Society and the Royal Academy.
The present painting suggests that Baldwin was familiar with the Camden Town Group painters - Gilman and Gore in particular.
Exhibitions
'Brake Baldwin: When the Painting had to Stop’ University of Hull 1971 No.12Illustrated in the catalogue.
‘Brake Baldwin: An Edwardian Painter’ The Michael parkin Gallery 1990 No. 52
Illustrated in the catalogue.