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Ralph Hedley R.B.A.
Home lessons
1887
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oil on canvas
382 x 282 mm
SIGNED b.l.c.  R. Hedley 87

EXHIBITED

Loan Exhibition of Works by Ralph Hedley R.B.A.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1938 (4)

Ralph Hedley: Tyneside Painter,
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, 1990-91

PUBLIC COLLECTION 

Laing Art Gallery,
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Reference TWCMS : G4776
Given by Mrs Marion Ross, 1944

 

Ralph Hedley Archive reference
1887_w010

Home lessons

In 1938 a loan exhibition of works by Ralph Hedley was held at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle, later transferring across the river Tyne to the Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead.  The catalogue shows that two pictures were shown with the title Home lessons, one (4) by Mrs. M. Ross who gave this picture to the Laing in 1944 and the other (74) by Summers Hunter, Esq., C.B.E.

One of these owners described the picture as “depicts a ragged boy sitting in window seat doing sums on a broken slate”

A picture called Home lessons was shown at the Royal Academy, London in 1894 (477) but there is no evidence so far that it was this picture or another untraced version.

Ralph Hedley R.B.A. Sketchbook note for Home lessons 1887 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This charcoal sketch (1887_w010) from a model helps to show Hedley's natural ability for drawing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Ralph Hedley R.B.A. Home lessons 1887 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED