About this objectSwedish Farm, a drawing by William Ratcliffe. This is a drawing of the same scene from our own collection 2023.203, a watercolour. An oil of the same scene is held at Manchester Art Gallery.
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 small girl in the painting is Brynhild Parker.
