Provenance
Private collection, UK.

John Bagnold Burgess was part of an artistic circle that included John 'Spanish' Phillip and Edward Long, first visiting Spain with Long in 1858. As one critic noted in 1880, the year the present lot was painted: 'in tone and feeling he proves himself as capable of portraying tenderness as he is of drollery and humour; and most certainly the comparison between John Phillip and John Burgess which is so frequently made is praise to each.'¹ Burgess' love of Spanish and North African subjects would continue throughout his career, and he regularly exhibited North African subjects at the Royal Academy, with works including such as The rush for Water: scene during the Ramadan in Morocco (1873), Zehra (1880) and Guarding the hostages (1881).

¹Art Journal, The works of John Bagnold Burgess ARA, 1880, p.336.

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