Pollitt (Charles Stanley)

"Home-work",

£150


, , c.1930.
perfectly capturing the somnolent effect of study on a young girl, slumped asleep in a chair with a slate on her lap and books lying open on the floor. Charles Stanley Pollitt (1888-1965), painter and printmaker, was a follower of the Pre-Raphaelites having trained as the studio assistant of William Holman Hunt. Later he travelled and worked on the Continent, including as a copyist at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, then becoming Professor of English at the Vatican..
245 by 147mm (9¾ by 5¾ inches).