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WALTER LANGLEY (BRITISH 1852-1922) PLEASANT NEWS signed W LANGLEY lower left watercolour on paper 52 x 39cm; 20 1/2 x 15 1/4in 80.5 x 64cm; 31 3/4 x 25 1/4 Property of a Private Collector Provenance W. Victor Williams (purchased from the artist) W. A. Clark (a gift from the above in 1916) Thence by descent to the present owner Literature Roger Langley, Walter Langley, Pioneer of the Newlyn Art Colony, Bristol, 1997, p.168, illustrated Painted in Newlyn in 1901, the present lot depicts the courtyard of a local cottage; a fisherman pauses from repairing sail cloth to smoke his pipe whilst a young woman reads a letter and two children draw water from a barrel behind. The same courtyard featured in a number of Langley's works including a large oil painting of 1898 A Cousin from Town and a watercolour from 1901 Local Critics. The young woman also appeared in other works by Langley, and can be seen leaning against the harbour railings in the artist's large oil of the same year Between the Tides (Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Cheshire). The blouse worn in both works was originally white and belonged to a Newlyn woman named Mrs Tregurtha who dyed it pink but gifted it to Langley after she decided it did not suit her complexion.