Painting of the Week - William Stewart MacGeorge
My Lady's Train
This superb Scottish Edwardian Impressionist exhibited figurative landscape oil painting is by noted artist William Steward MacGeorge. It was painted in 1901 and exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy that year entitled My Lady's Train. The composition is a group of young girls beside a river under trees. Some are fishing, a couple are further up the path, two are tending a little fire, one blowing on it. The star of the show is standing in the foreground with a beautiful red patterned shawl wrapped around her, trailing the ground behind her - hence the title My Lady's Train. She's obviously putting on a little performance as she clasps the shawl to her chest and looks back over her shoulder and two of the girls are watching her and laughing. The red of her shawl is echoed both left and right in a friend's hat, the basket cloth and in flowers on the path, probably poppies. The other girl’s dresses are vivid pops of green, blue and yellow. The Scottish Impressionist brushwork and distinct MacGeorge style make this an absolute masterpiece and a first-class example of his work.
Signed lower right.
Provenance Exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy 1901 no. 145 entitled My Lady's Train and illustrated on page 119 of catalog.
Sotheby's August 2003 - sold for £28,000 + buyers premium.
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https://www.richardtaylorfineart.com/gallery/new/macgeorge/my-ladys-train