Artist:Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942)
Medium: Oil paint on canvas;
Dimensions: Support: 495 × 655 × 20 mm / frame: 639 × 803 × 89 mm;
Collection: Tate;
Acquisition: Purchased 1941.
This picture was strongly attacked by the critics when it was first exhibited in 1887, and dismissed by one as 'either a deliberate daub or so much mere midsummer madness'.
Steer considered giving up painting in the wake of this disapproval.
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