Ready and Willing - A beautiful maid, finely painted, capturing the charm, beauty and Victorian sentimentality of the young lady, that Edwin Thomas Roberts was renowned for.
Signed: Lower left corner
Please see "We Scorn the Foreign Yoke" - this is paired with Ready and Willing
Victorian 1837-1901
Artist:Edwin Thomas Roberts
Canvas Dimensions
61.0 cms High (
24 inches)
45.7 cms Wide (
18 inches)
Frame Dimensions
83.8 cms High (
33 inches)
68.6 cms Wide (
27 inches)
7.6 cms Deep (
3 inches)
Edwin Thomas Roberts was born in London in the 1840 and died in 1917. He was the son of Thomas Edward Roberts who also was an artist. Roberts regularly used children in his artworks and he portrayed them in a charming and idealistic manner. This style of art proved to be enormously popular with the Victorian public of the day and his work is still widely admired today as it represented the golden age of Victorian art and sentimentality.
Roberts works are now highly sought after and are increasing in value.
Exhibitions:
Suffolk Street : 1862-1886
Royal Academy : 1882-1884
Works include: Newlyn Scene; Naval Manoeuvres; There´s Many a Wile Lies Hid in a Smile; The Professor; The Dishonoured Bill; Polly, What's the Time (1884)
