Radnorshire Fine Arts Ltd

Description

"Young Haymakers" by Robert Duddingstone Herdman 1909

Oil on canvas-board, signed with a Monogram and dated (lower left). Further inscriptions on the back include the name of the artist and the title. Displayed in a period English Watts gilded frame and glazed. Provenance: Sotheby’s sale of Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours, Chester, Cheshire 15 Jan 1987. The picture was illustrated on page 62 of the catalogue.

Canvas board: 16 7/16 x 13 1/2 in. (41.8 x 34.2 cm.)
Frame: 24 3/4 x 20 5/8 in. (62.7 x 52.2 cm.)

Herdman completed a larger version of the subject which was auctioned under the title “The Joy of Summer”, dated 1906. Oil on canvas 114.2 x 91.5 cm. The picture first appeared at Sotheby’s London in 1994 and made £10,350 including buyer’s premium. The second time was Christie’s in 2006 where it made £10,800 including buyer’s premium. The third time was at Lyon & Turnbull in 2010 where it failed to sell. Our painting, the smaller version was auctioned back in 1987, the result is not listed on their database.

A native of Edinburgh, where he was born in 1863, Robert Duddingstone Herdman may be said to have continued to a second generation the combination of scholarly and artistic qualities which he inherited from his father, Robert Herdman, R.S.A., the distinguished figure and portrait painter of decades of last century. Like him his son had a University training which put him in touch with various spheres of culture, and, though never obtruded, these went to the formation of a personality, both of character and of work, which his more intimate friends, lay and professional, always associated with him.

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