Allan Douglas Davidson RBA ROI RMS (Attributed), Reverie

Allan Douglas Davidson RBA ROI RMS (Attributed), ReverieThis early 20th century oil painting attributed to British artist Allan Douglas Davidson (1873 1932) depicts a gentleman playing the piano and the ghostlike form of a nude. The well versed pianist, immersed in his playing, is simultaneously lost in reverie. His imagination conjuring the sensual vision of a naked woman. Perhaps shes a lost love or simply a manifestation of the music itself. Davidson was a master of figure painting, training in Paris,

Countess of Shrewsbury

Signed/dated lower right and held in its original frame

raspberries and peach

peaches and pomegranates tumble from porcelain

Mrs Robinson briefly became the mistress of George the Prince Regent after playing Perdita in The Winter's Tale

A third ambles

from which he worked

they were simply a celebration of form

300 achieved for an interior scene (Watercolour) at Christie’s 1989

It’s such a clever composition with the trees and riverbank running in parallel on our left

This traumatic demonstration of nature’s power over man left an indelible mark

Arthur Ludwig Ratzka (b