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A smiling man in a hat, overcoat, shirt and tie sits on a dark red upholstered seat at a table in a bar, squeezing a lemon into a glass of water on a circular stainless steel tray. On the tray there is also another lemon, three sugar cubes and a plate with a bread roll and butter knife. A newspaper is propped up against a cut-glass water carafe. John Daniel Revel was a painter of portraits and figure studies. Born in Dundee, he studied architecture and then painting at the Royal College of Art in London where he met his wife, the painter Lucy Elizabeth Babington Mackenzie. He was Director of Chelsea School of Art from 1912 to 1924, the youngest in the school’s history. His time there was interrupted by the First World War when he served in the artillery in India.
The artist recalls of this picture: ‘It was painted from my studio assistant in London, shortly before I came to Glasgow. The title fitted this entertaining Cockney man, who was full of wit and entertainment.’
The painting was exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London in 1924. Reviewing the exhibition, The Times took exception to the looseness of the brushwork, writing on 9th October 1924: ‘[…] the obvious comment is that the young man squeezing a lemon into a tumbler needn't have been so sloppy about it. As a small sketch he might have been welcome.’ It was also exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1925 (no. 398) and Royal Scottish Academy in 1932 (no. 394).
Title
Happy Days
Date
1924
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 101.6 x W 76.2 cm
Accession number
3176
Acquisition method
gift from the artist, 1963
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
signed/dated
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC)
200 Woodhead Road, South Nitshill Industrial Estate, Glasgow G53 7NN Scotland
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