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342 - CHARLES EDWARD HALLÉ (BRITISH, 1846–1914)THE FOUNTAINOil on canvasSigned (lower right)109 x 45.5cm (42¾ x 17¾in.)Exhibited:New Gallery, 1897, no 143Literature:The Morning Post, 10 May 1897, p 3Sir Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor and father of the painter, brought his twoyear old son, the future artist, to London from Paris fleeing the revolution of 1848. Hallé junior spentmuch of his young life in Italy. In 1877 he and Joseph Comyns Carr with Sir Coutts Lindsay foundedthe Grosvenor Gallery, which quickly became the flagship of the Aesthetic Movement. When, in1887, disputes arose over the running of the Grosvenor, Hallé and Carr withdrew and, with thesupport of Burne-Jones and others, opened the New Gallery in Regent Street the following year,where Hallé exhibited this typical Aesthetic Movement painting in 1897.'Mr C E Halle sends several single-figure studies of damsels, pretty faced and attired in picturesquecostumes' (review of the New Gallery exhibition in The Morning Post, 10 May 1897, p 3)
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CHARLES EDWARD HALLÉ (BRITISH, 1846–1914)THE FOUNTAINOil on canvasSigned (lower right)109 x 45.5cm (42¾ x 17¾in.)Exhibited:New Gallery, 1897, no 143Literature:The Morning Post, 10 May 1897, p 3Sir Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor and father of the painter, brought his twoyear old son, the future artist, to London from Paris fleeing the revolution of 1848. Hallé junior spentmuch of his young life in Italy. In 1877 he and Joseph Comyns Carr with Sir Coutts Lindsay foundedthe Grosvenor Gallery, which quickly became the flagship of the Aesthetic Movement. When, in1887, disputes arose over the running of the Grosvenor, Hallé and Carr withdrew and, with thesupport of Burne-Jones and others, opened the New Gallery in Regent Street the following year,where Hallé exhibited this typical Aesthetic Movement painting in 1897.'Mr C E Halle sends several single-figure studies of damsels, pretty faced and attired in picturesquecostumes' (review of the New Gallery exhibition in The Morning Post, 10 May 1897, p 3)
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