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PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE SIR LAWRENCE GOWING, C.B.E., R.A. (1918-1991)

ATTRIBUTED TO HANNAH PALMER, NÉE LINNELL (BRITISH, 1818-1893)

The Flight into Egypt

Name: ATTRIBUTED TO HANNAH PALMER, NÉE LINNELL (BRITISH, 1818-1893)
Brand: The Flight into Egypt
Price: 6500.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 8,190

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Closed: 15 Dec 2022

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ATTRIBUTED TO HANNAH PALMER, NÉE LINNELL (BRITISH, 1818-1893)

The Flight into Egypt

Price Realised GBP 8,190

Closed: 15 Dec 2022

Price Realised GBP 8,190

Closed: 15 Dec 2022

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ATTRIBUTED TO HANNAH PALMER, NÉE LINNELL (BRITISH, 1818-1893)
The Flight into Egypt
oil on canvas
8⁷⁄₈ x 12¹⁄₄ in. (22.5 x 31.1 cm.)

The Earl of Portsmouth.
Purchased from Roderic Thesiger, circa 1950 by
Sir Lawrence Gowing, and then by descent.

R. Lister, Samuel Palmer and 'The Ancients', exh. cat., Cambridge, 1984, p. 99, no. 148.

Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery; Bristol, City Art Gallery; Wakefield, City Art Gallery; Newcastle, Hatton Gallery; Cambridge, Arts Council Gallery; Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, Samuel Palmer and his Circle: The Shoreham Period, 29 October 1956 - 20 April 1957, no. 77, as 'Biblical Subject', as by John Linnell.
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Samuel Palmer and 'The Ancients', 9 October - 16 December 1984, no. 148, as by John Linnell.

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Lot Essay

In his entry on for the exhibition in 1984, Raymond Lister notes that the technique for the painting is much more reminiscent of the known works of John Linnell's daughter, Hannah, who married Samuel Palmer. Lister describes the 'almost embroidered treatment of the trees' as a hallmark of Hannah's work which was also shown alongside the painting in the same exhibition. A note in Sir Lawrence Gowing's files mentions 'R. Lister suggests it is by Hannah Palmer. I agree.'
The other mystery surrounding the painting is the title - although it is tentatively called - it seems, apart from the little group with the donkey on the hill at the left, to have little relationship to the subject. The distant towered city, the soldiers in the foreground and the girl climbing the tree are all lacking in most known treatments of the flight.