Picking Flowers In Spring, 19th Century John Yeend King (1855-1924)

Picking Flowers in Spring, 19th Century JOHN YEEND KING (1855-1924) sold for $100,000 A large 19th century English scene of girls picking flowers in spring, oil on canvas by John Yen King. Excellent quality and condition, a great example of the artist's work, possibly a Royal Academy exhibition. Signed and presented in its original gilt frame Dimensions: 36 x 26 inches approximately framed John Henry Yeend King trained in Paris with Léon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon. He exhibited regularly in London at the Royal Academy from 1879 and at the Suffolk Street Gallery from 1874. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and vice-president of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. He exhibited in Berlin and Munich, and won a bronze medal at the 1889 Paris World's Fair. The Tate Gallery, London, acquired his painting Milking Time in 1898. His paintings of farm girls in rustic landscapes were popular and highly sought after. Liverpool Museum and Gallery holdings: From Green to Gold London (Tate collection): Milking Time (exhibited 1898, oil on canvas) Reading: Old Newbury; Meditation; Aldermaston; Poet and Countryman Rochdale (AG): River Banks and Flowers Sheffield: Riverside Garden; Farm on the Kent Coast Sydney (AG of New South Wales): The Riverside Garden; A Farm by the Kent Coast; Bibury, Gloucestershire Torquay (Torre Abbey Historic House et Gal.): Evening in the Village (1897, oil on canvas) Wolverhampton (AG et Mus.): Courtship (oil on canvas) Bibliography Henry King' in Pall Mall Pictures of 1911, periodical, Pall Mall, London, 1911.