Fair Quiet and Sweet Rest
Painting by Luke Fildes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fair Quiet and Sweet Rest is an oil painting on canvas by the British artist Luke Fildes, from 1872.[1] [2]
_-_Fair_Quiet_and_Sweet_Rest_-_WAGMG_,_1911.258_-_Warrington_Museum_and_Art_Gallery.jpg)
| Fair Quiet and Sweet Rest | |
|---|---|
| |
| Artist | Luke Fildes |
| Year | 1872 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 122 cm × 213 cm (48 in × 84 in) |
| Location | |
History and description
It depicts a carefree summer Idyll. It was inspired by a boat trip and picnic that Fildes had taken on the River Thames several years earlier with his close friend Henry Woods and his two sisters Fanny and Annie, the latter of whom married Fildes in 1874.[3] It has been described as Watteauesque in style.[4]
This painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1872 held at Burlington House, in London, his debut at the annual exhibitions, where it was widely praised. Today the picture is in the Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, in Cheshire, which purchased it in 1911.[5]
His follow-up in similar style, Simpletons, at the 1873 exhibition, was less well-received. [6] Fildes ultimately became best known for realist paintings or ordinary life and his portraiture.