Morning Chores Gold Silver & Bronze This painting is currently drying

This painting is currently drying in the artist's studio but will be available from the gallery as soon as possible

I absolutely adore them but they are rare and I expect one day soon a cleverer and richer dealer will root out a stash on the continent and make them very expensive overnight

probably the last of her kind at work in Europe

dying tragically of pneumonia at only 48

Chamberlain’s painting of an industrial site in Chelsea’s Lots Road has it all

Morning Chores Gold Silver & Bronze This painting is currently dryingThis is a wonderful image, a hangover from the era of Victorian genre paintings but a very modern painting for 1889. More of a transitional style, it could easily have been painted in the early twentieth century. The pose of the model is very natural, seemingly unposed in fact. The unconscious way in which she goes about her chores is beguiling, and the light is masterly. Even more impressive that Rnquist painted this while still a student of twenty