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Born in Oxford, the son of the organist at New College, Campbell Taylor attended the Ruskin School before proceeding to the St John's Wood Art School and the Royal Academy Schools, which he entered in 1905. He had begun to exhibit at the RA in 1899, and was to show there regularly until his death seventy years later. Specialising in genre scenes, interiors and portraits, he developed a style which owed a marked debt to Vermeer, but the present picture, which was exhibited at the RA in 1902, three years before he entered the Academy Schools, belongs to a group of early works which betray a very different influence, that of oriental art. Henry Blackburn described it in his Academy Notes as representing 'a Japanese party', while another picture exhibited the same year, The Rivals (no. 559), showed 'two Japanese warriors fighting in a forest about a woman.' For a discussion of Taylor's early paintings in this oriental mode, see Herbert Furst, Leonard Campbell Taylor, RA: His Place in Art, 1945, pp.50, 55.
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THIS CONDITION REPORT HAS BEEN PREPARED BY HAMISH DEWAR FINE ART CONSERVATION, IN THE CHRISTIE'S WAREHOUSE FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS SALE.
Structural condition The artist's panel has an even profile and appears to be structurally sound and secure.
Paint surface The paint surface has an even varnish layer. Inspection under ultraviolet light shows some tiny lines filling drying craquelure to the left of the juggler and perhaps some historic strengthening within the paintings hanging above the Juggler. There may also be a very small retouching beneath the chin of the central seated man. It should be stressed that if these are retouchings they are very small. Ultraviolet light also shows some traces of underlying varnish. There are other areas, such as on the face of the juggler, that fluoresce unevenly under ultraviolet light, but in my opinion, and upon close inspection, are not retouchings.
Summary The painting therefore appears to be in very good and stable condition, with minimal intervention in the past, and no further work is required.
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Lot 80Sale 21004
The jugglerLEONARD CAMPBELL TAYLOR, R.A. (1874-1969)Estimate: GBP 10,000 - 15,000
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