Thursday, August 27, 2009

Thomas Maybank - Come Unto these Yellow Sands


1906
oil on canvas
20 x 29"
exhibited at the RA in the same year
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fl. 1898 - 1925.
A fairy and genre painter who is known to have worked in Beckenham, Croydon and Esther. He worked for Punch - 1902-4 and seems to have been inspired by the work of Richard Doyle. His subjects were often inspired by Shakespeare and this painting comes from lines in the Tempest, sung by Ariel.

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