251 - William Harris Weatherhead,

William Harris Weatherhead, British 1843-1903- Sewing for Baby; pencil and watercolour heightened with white and scratching out on paper, signed and dated 'W. H. Weatherhead / - 1890 -' (lower right), 78.2 x 60.5 cm. Provenance: Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 March 2000, lot 265. Private Collection, UK. Note: Weatherhead was a London-based watercolour and genre painter who first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1862 and continued to exhibit there regularly until 1895. He also exhibited at the British Institution, the Suffolk Street galleries, and other venues. Elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 1885, he remained a member until his resignation in 1903. The present work is characteristic of Weatherhead's genre scenes, for which he is best known, depicting intimate domestic interiors with mothers and children or women engaged in everyday household tasks. A comparable interior scene featuring a mother holding her baby sold at Sworders on 11 April 2006, lot 520 (£780 hammer).