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Henley: The Regatta

painter Ralph Wormeley Curtis (American, 1854 - 1922)

Date1890

Place MadeLondon, Greater London, England, Europe

MediumWatercolor and gouache on paper

Dimensions24.8 x 35 cm (9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberP33e4

eMuseum ID724667

EmbARK ObjectID13907

TMS Source ID2752

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIn 1890, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband Jack spent a week at the Henley Royal Regatta. They stayed on a house boat named the Sunbeam and watched the races near the University of Oxford's Balliol College Boat Club. Balliol College supporters asked Mrs.Gardner and her party to shout 'Well rowed, Balliol!' when their crew passed and they cheerfully obliged. The painter and friend of the Gardners, Ralph Curtis was among their group and painted this watercolor of the scene.

ProvenanceNotesGift from Ralph Wormeley Curtis to Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1890.