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Alec & Barbara FlemingPaintings, drawings and works on paper

Reference photograph, catalogue sheet 12

Cat. 44 · Painting

Cornfields With Church

Attributed to Alec Fleming

Date not recorded

Medium
Oil on pre- primed daler board
Dimensions
50.5 cm × 40.5 cmAs recorded in the catalogue
Date
Date not recorded
Signature
Not recorded
Catalogue no.
Cat. 44
Source
Catalogue, entry 44
Status
Private collection
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Description

Cornfields with a classical church with pediment in the middle ground.

Commentary

The rapid impressionistic brush strokes and light palette with multi directional brush strokes in the sky show a painter confident in painting en plein air. Likely painted in England.

Attribution

Attributed to Alec Fleming.

Given to Alec Fleming in the catalogue.

Catalogue wording: “Alec Fleming”

How attributions are worded

Verso

A Daler sticker. A Fleming in blue marker.

The reverse is marked “A Fleming” in block capitals. Many boards in the collection carry this marking, and some of them are considered to be by Barbara Fleming. The marking may record ownership rather than authorship and is not treated here as evidence of attribution.

Condition

Good condition. no foxing or staining.

Further works

Alec Fleming