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Literature
Vern Swanson, JW Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism, revised edition, Woodbridge, 2018, p. 24, illustrated p. 256.
The present lot has recently been identified by Dr Vern Swanson as a very early Godward, painted in 1886, the very first year that the artist took up Neo-classicism. Swanson notes that Godward's few pictures of that year- see also Flower Girl, illustrated in Swanson, p. 24- pull together elements from such masters as Alma-Tadema, Albert Moore and Edward John Poynter. These early works, Swanson notes, were 'the launching pad for his career'.1
1Vern Swanson, JW Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism, revised edition, Woodbridge, 2018, p. 24.