oil on canvas
signed lower right
41 ½ x 33 ½ in / 105.4 x 85 cm
Provenance
H P Adams, London 1930
Sotheby’s London 1934
Sotheby’s London 1969
Hon Mrs A Agnew Somerville
Exhibited
Goupil Gallery, London, 3rd Exhibition 1908, no.46
Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow, 48th Exhibition, 1909, no.590
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 39th Autumn Exhibition, Sept 1909 – Jan 1910, no.1018
Royal Institute of Oil Painters, London, 46th Exhibition, 1929, no.58 ill.
Literature
Studio book 1930, p.47 as The Smugglers Cave
Frank Rinder, William Orpen, RHA, The Art Journal, 1909, p.18 ill. and Goupil Gallery Review, p.26
P G Konody and Sidney Dark, William Orpen; Artist and Man, 1932, p.277
Bruce Arnold, Orpen: Mirror to an Age, 1981, p.217
