About this objectWatercolour by William Ratcliffe of a farm in Sweden.
The artist William Ratcliffe spent much of 1913 in Sweden with the family of Stanley Parker (Stanley, Signe and their daughter Brynhild) and J.D. Beresford an Art Connoisseur. The group stayed at the Sundsholm estate in the southern Swedish province of Småland, a manor house and farm that the Parkers had helped Signe's brother Gottfried Bergström to purchase.
The painting hung at 102 Wilbury Road, home of Stanley Parker, who made the frame. The small girl in the painting is Brynhild Parker, daughter of Stanley and his Swedish wife Signe.
Our museum also holds a sketch of this same art work (1979.39). An oil painting of this same scene is among the collection of Manchester Art Gallery.
MakerWilliam Ratcliffe
Maker RoleArtist
Date Made1913
Period20th Century (1901-2000)
Medium and MaterialsPencil, pen and brown ink, pastel and watercolour. Heightened with touches of bodycolour on paper, lightly squared.
