Ancient Forest, the Vision of St Eustace

c1954

oil on canvas

51h × 61w (cm)

Private Collection (UK)

Historical and Biblical References

Animals | Birds

Landscapes | Gardens

Trees | Woods | Forests

Strange Pictures

RA Summer Exhibitions

Recto: unsigned and undated

Verso: David Ker Fine Art label with title "Ancient Forest, the Vision of St Eustace"

Alternatives:

Ancient Forest [RA], Ancient Forest, the Vision of St Eustace [Bonham’s]

Format:

Painting

Tags:

Animals / Birds

Historical / Biblical References

Landscapes / Gardens

Problem Pictures

Sets

Themes

Trees / Woods

Form

Landscape

Mystical

Religious

Symbolic

Subject

\Trees

animal

antlers

cross

deer

figures in a landscape

forest

gorse

mysterious

mystery

stag

woods woodland

Medium

Oil

Provenance & Events

EXHIBITION • 30th Apr to 14th Aug 1955

"Summer Exhibition 1955"

Royal Academy of Arts

Cat 575

ACQUIRED • Sep to 1955

by the Marchioness of Devonshire from the RA show

For £100

AUCTION • 6th Oct 1988

"[title unknown]"

Bonhams

lot 13, illustrated

IN COLLECTION • 2015

Private Collection (UK)

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A Nativity (1949)

Kirkham Abbey on the Derwent (1951)