Name: WILLIAM GALE (1823-1909)
Brand: A dip on a Summer's Day
Price: 7500.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

WILLIAM GALE (1823-1909)
A dip on a Summer's Day
signed with monogram (lower right), further signed 'William Gale' (on the reverse) and inscribed "A dip on a Summer's Day" (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
10 x 13 in. (25.4 33 cm.)

with The Fine Art Society, London, September 1992, no. 12462.
'The Eye of a Collector': Works from the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger; Sotheby's, London, 14 June 2001, lot 73, where purchased by the present owner.

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Gale travelled widely, to Syria, Algeria and most notably the Holy Land in 1867 where he recorded the customs and costumes of the local inhabitants. This picture, no doubt intended to amuse, sees him under the grey skies of an English summer, the bather teasingly out of sight. In his early days he painted in the Pre-Raphaelite manner. His 1857 exhibit, The Confidante, is now in Tate Britain.