Price on request Titled on a label on the reverse; tempera on panel, 15½ × 11¼ in. (39.4 × 28.5 cm.)
Exhibited: British Artists’ Exhibition, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, late 1920s
The
label for the British Artists’ Exhibition held at the Ferens Art
Gallery on the reverse of the painting suggests a date of post-1927 for
this work, the date when the Ferens was built. Stylistically it can be
dated to the late 1920s or early 1930s and, in a broader context, fits
in with the tempera revival of this period. Relatively little is known
about Beales, who lived in Hampstead, and is recorded as having
exhibited a single painting at the Royal Academy in 1948.