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Trespassers
1878
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
61.2 × 107.1 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Alfred Felton, 1904
© Public Domain
Gallery location
19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
When this painting was in the Toorak home of Mr R. W. Kinnear in 1883, the Argus newspaper described it as showing: ‘three children waist deep in the long lush grass of an English meadow, starred with a profusion of wild flowers. It is “the leafy month of June”’; haymaking is going on in the valley below; the copses wear their richest livery of verdure... and the mottled sky is slightly veiled and delicately softened by the moist haze which fills the atmosphere’. Trespassers was shown at London’s Royal Academy exhibition in 1878.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed (diagonally) in brown paint l.l.: J. Clayton Adams / 1878
inscribed in pen and brown ink on paper label on reverse u.r.: No 1. Trespa(...illeg.) / John Clayton Ada(...illeg.) / Eushurst Hill / No (o double underlined) Guildford
Accession Number
136-2
Department
International Painting
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Provenance
Exhibited Royal Academy, London, 1878, no. 453[i]; with Arthur Tooth & Sons (dealer), London, 1878; from where purchased by Robert H. Kinnear (1820–1902), by 1883[ii]; his collection, Brookong House, Toorak, Melbourne, until 1902; collection of Alfred Felton (1831–1904), Melbourne, by 1902 until 1904; by whom bequeathed to the NGV, 1904.[iii]
[i] H. Blackburn, ed., Academy Notes, London, 1878, p. 45
[ii] ‘Art notes: Private collections and collectors no. 1’, The Argus, Saturday 7 July 1883, p. 4.
[iii] Felton list, L.B. Hall papers, National Library, Canberra, Ms. 10814.
Exhibited: Royal Academy, London, 1878, no. 453; Diamond Jubilee Loan Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, 1897, no. 58, owner R.H. Kinnear.