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Lot description
Samuel Bough, RSA, British 1822-1878- The River Avon; oil on panel, signed and dated 'Sam Bough / May[?] 1854' (lower left), bears old inscribed label on the reverse, 28 x 44.3 cm. Provenance: with William Rivett (Gainsborough Gallery), London. Private Collection, UK. Note: Sam Bough was an English-born landscape painter who worked in Scotland for most of his career. Although self-taught, he worked closely with a number of significant contemporaries, including painters Sir Daniel Macnee (1806-1882), who served as President of the Royal Scottish Academy, and Alexander Fraser (1827-1899). The present work exhibits the serenity which characterises Bough's landscapes, with the secluded setting populated solely by a pair of female figures washing their laundry by the river. The artist effectively evokes these freshly cleaned garments through his loose and confident brushstrokes to the immediate central foreground.