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Lot description
George Henry Boughton, RA, British / American 1833-1905- A lady, standing full-length, dressed in historical costume and reading a letter; pencil and watercolour heightened with white on paper, signed 'G.H. BOUGHTON' (lower right), 34 x 24.1 cm. Provenance: with Pyms Gallery, London, stock no. PG F602. Note: The artist repeatedly returned to the subject of young female figures in a natural setting, often as the personification of the seasons. Boughton's paintings generally present a somewhat romanticised image of rural life, even when they are not explicitly allegorical, with the present work depicting a contemplative young figure, dressed in what appears to be 18th-century clothing, absorbed in the reading of a letter.