“A View of Frog Lane” by Benjamin Williams Leader RA

A View of Frog Lane

Benjamin Williams Leader RA & Edward Thompson Davis

c. 1854

Oil on canvas

16.5 x 15 inches

Courtesy of the Maas Gallery

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According to the Maas Gallery site, “This early work, a collaboration with his student friend Edward Thompson Davis, is probably Leader’s first exhibited painting (Worcester Society of Arts, 1854). Leader met Davis when they were both pupils at the Worcester School of Design. Davis would paint the faces whilst Leader painted the rest. The view is a cobbled street behind Diglis House in Worcester, where Leader lived.”

Last modified 11 September 2020