Charles Green, RI

(British, 1840-1898)

A bit of old Hampstead

Footnotes

Provenance
Sale including the contents of 17 Grove End Road, Hampton & Sons, London, 11 June 1913, lot 596.
Thomas Agnew & Sons.
C. P. Mason; sale, Sotheby's, Belgravia, 5 November 1974, lot 69.
Professor George Teeling Smith.
With The Fine Art Society, London.
The Irish News Collection (acquired from the above.)

Illustrated
Elizabeth Prettejohn et al, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Zwolle, 1997, p.54.

Literature
William Cosmo Monkhouse, British Contemporary Artists, 1899, p.225.
F.G. Stephens, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, R.A., 1895, pp. 15-16.
Rudolph de Cordova, 'The panels in Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Hall', The Strand Magazine, Vol. XXIV, 1902, pp. 615-630, ill. p.619.

Charles Green trained at Heatherley's and was a painter and illustrator and one of the most successful draughtsmen of his generation. He is chiefly remembered as a Dickens illustrator and before his untimely death at the age of fifty-eight was a leading member of the group of book illustrators known as 'The New Men of The Sixties'. His contribution to the scheme shows a scene that amused him and that he regularly saw in his birthplace of Hampstead. As de Cordova recounts 'it was a standing joke of his that whenever he passed by that particular shop, the barber was always standing in the doorway and his wife was always watering the flowers out of the first floor window'.