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Old-time Tuition at Dulwich College
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Old-time Tuition at Dulwich College

by Walter Charles Horsley

Date: Before 1906

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Item details
  • Acquisition

    Presented in 1920 by Sir James Leigh Wood on behalf of the relatives of the late Mr Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, a scholar of Dulwich College from 1881 to 1884

  • Accession number

    DPG607

  • Artist description

    Walter Charles Horsley

  • Date

    Before 1906

  • Dimensions

    84.1 x 107.3 cm

  • Inscription

    Signed bottom left: 'Walter. C. Horsley'.

  • Materials

    Oil on canvas

DPG6O7 illustrates one of the recollections of John Callcott Horsley (1817-1903), the painter's father who, writing in his late eighties, remembered being invited as a boy of about eleven to stay with one of the fellows of Dulwich College, Mr Lindsay: 'He was not an early riser so he arranged that his class should come up to his bedroom for their lessons at eight o'clock every morning' (J.C. Horsley, Recollections of a Royal Academician, London, 1903, pp.294-5). John Lindsay a contemporary at Dulwich of Ozias Thurston Linley (see Oliver DPG476), was Usher of Dulwich College 1814-34.

Old-time Tuition at Dulwich College

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