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William Percy French (1854-1920) THE GARDEN THAT I LOVE signed with initials and dated [1896] low...

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William Percy French (1854-1920) THE GARDEN THAT I LOVE signed with initials and dated [1896] low...
William Percy French (1854-1920)
THE GARDEN THAT I LOVE
signed with initials and dated [1896] lower left
watercolour
29 by 44cm., 11.5 by 17.5in.
Exhibited:
WCSI, 1897, catalogue no. 116 (£4-4-0)
"Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite
Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love".
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
These lines from Tennyson were frequently quoted around the period in which Percy French painted the present work. Two years previously, Alfred Austin (1835-1913) had borrowed the phrase as the title of his highly popular diary miscellany - a work which led to him being named Tennyson's successor as Poet Laureate of England in January 1896.
€8,000-€10,000 (IR £6,200-£7,800 approx.)
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