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Still life
1830
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1883
- Gallery location
- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
The English painter George Lance was a great admirer of seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish still life. Initially trained as a history painter, he was, like his contemporary Charles Darwin (1809–82) obsessed with natural history, undertaking many courses in anatomical dissection. In keeping with the scientific trends of his day, Lance was less interested in the moral elements of Dutch still lifes than in their empirical observation of nature. Lance became the most successful painter of this genre in Britain. He was courted by the great houses of England, and painted the prize fruit and vegetables of Woburn and Blenheim.
Artwork Details
Purchased, 1883
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Level 2, NGV International
Exhibited Travelling Exhibition No. 1, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1950 (n.n.); Exhibition of Oil Paintings by British and European Artists, Centre for Adult Education, Melbourne, 1954, no.6.