(British, fl. 1862 - 1871)

English Victorian Landscapes ERROR MSG (pair)

Oil on board

10" x 18" each

15 1/2" x 23 3/4" framed

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          Georgina Lara was a painter of farmyard scenes and villages.  She has a tendency to to place large numbers of small, doll-like figures into her imaginative scenes.  For a time, she was mistakenly known as George Lara, and her canvases are often attributed to the noteworthy painter William Shayer who generally painted scenes similar in both subject and appearance.

          She exhibited at the British Institution, an organization established in 1806 to serve as a rival to the Royal Academy at Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery.  In addition, Lara exhibited a significant number of times at the Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street, which was founded in 1824 by a group of rebel artists; the Society became Royal in 1887 under the Presidency of Whistler.

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Recorded:

Wood, Christopher.  The Dictionary of Victorian Painters.  (Suffolk:  Antique Collectors' Club Ltd.,  1978).