Lake with Trees

Details

Date: 1882
Object Type: watercolour
Material: watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: W104
Artist: Rathbone, Harold Steward (1858 - 1929)
Credit notes: Presented by Miss Philippa Garrett Fawcett, 1938

Harold Rathbone (1858 – 1929) was a member of the prominent Liverpool merchant family. His father Philip (1828 – 1895) chaired the committee which ran the Walker Art Gallery. Rathbone studied at the Slade School of Art and became a pupil of Ford Madox Brown (1821 – 1893). This watercolour from 1882 depicts three bare trees infront of a rippling expanse of water. In 1894 Rathbone founded the Della Robbia Pottery Company, Birkenhead with the sculptor Conrad Dressler, which produced ceramics in an Art Nouveau style.