Lot 1 Rose Maynard Barton

Rose Maynard Barton RWS 1856-1929 CLOTH ALLEY, SMITHFIELD Watercolour, 14'' x '' (30.5cm x 20cm), signed and dated 1892; bears title on a label attached to the backboard. Provenance; Cork, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Rose Barton Exhibition, 1987, no. 33 ''I think that ''Cloth Fair'' was the most troublesome place in which I ever painted in London- not that the inhabitants wanted to hinder me, but that artists' visits are less frequent there than in other parts. However, the interest shown in my work was very keen. I managed to sit on a step with my back to the door, and no one would get exactly behind me, but at noon strings of mill girls used to swarm up the street, crowd about me and watch and order one another to get out of Lydy's way'.''