The Round Tree

Artist Derwent Lees (Tasmania, Australia, 1885 - 1931)

Mediumoil on board

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsOverall: Height: 39.3 cm, Width: 50.4 cm
Frame: Height: 64 cm, Width: 74.8 cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 1939 with income from the Macdonald Bequest.

CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG002414

Keywords

About MeConsidered to be the most important Australian artist to come to England during this period, Lees studied at the Slade School of Art in London. Whilst there he met Augustus John and J. D. Innes and the three formed a triumvirate spending their holidays painting in the South of France, the Pyrenees, North Wales and Dorset.

This landscape was painted at Albourne in West Sussex, near the village of Hurstpierpoint. The figure of the woman is possibly the artist's wife Lyndra, who also appears in another painting by Lees in the collections of Aberdeen Art Gallery, 'Lyndra in the Pyranees'.