Teatime at Haworth with the Brontës

© the artist's estate. Image credit: The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate

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Part of a series of Brontë-inspired paintings, this scene is deliberately painted with an intense high-pitched colour. The colours were intended to reflect Lawson's strong feelings from her readings of the Brontës, that their story was not one of 'ice and winds and baleful passion' but 'teatime and the warmth and the daily round of living and sunshine'. The work also had a great deal to do with recollections of the childhood gatherings of artists, poets and academics at the artist's parents' Castle Bolton cottage.

The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate

Harrogate

Title

Teatime at Haworth with the Brontës

Date

1981

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 152.2 x W 122.4 cm

Accession number

H2554

Acquisition method

gift from the artist, 2016

Work type

Painting

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