HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)

Lot 193
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ID 831310
Lot 193 | HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)
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HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)

Happy Land

signed with a fly (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated 'There was a Happy Land, Far Far away…/Sang Albert, the new Curate and Miss Smith, who/urged the Children from the Mount Pleasant Mission to sing with all their might, but the Children wanted to begin the Treat straight away with the Tea, and/then the Races and sweets. All the Ladies from/Leesfield had helped to make it a Day to/Remember. Aunt Frances and Aunt Charlotte are/seeing that everyone gets a mug of Tea. Miss Carter (who/wore Pink) came, but did not bring her apron, so she/looked after our dogs, Gyp and Barney. Mother is also/helping, but is rather anxious lest George & I go/near the poor children, especially one little boy who has/put up his hand saying "Please Miss, I feel sick."/"Dear me," said Mother "what shall we do with him," but/we found out that the poor little boy hadn't had/anything to eat all day and had come over faint,/and the year was 1907/ Helen Layfield Bradley 1971.' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)

oil on canvas

22 x 32 in. (55.9 x 81.3 cm.)

Painted in 1971.





Provenance

A gift from the artist to Bishop Foskett.

Mrs Joan Elizabeth Morton.

with Michael J Grimes, Liverpool, where purchased by the present owner in March 1994.



Exhibited

London, W.H. Patterson, Helen Bradley M.B.E. Commemorative Exhibition, July - August 2000, no. 24.



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