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Harold H J Beales:
Adoration of the Magi, late 1920s
Framed (ref: 481)

Titled on a label on the reverse
Tempera on panel, 15 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (39.4 × 28.5 cm.)

Tags: Harold H J Beales panel tempera Highlights of 20/21 Art Fair

Provenance: The Artist's Studio

Exhibited: British Artists’ Exhibition, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, late 1920s

In a gilded oak lap-jointed frame.

The label for the British Artists’ Exhibition held at the Ferens Art Gallery on the reverse of the painting suggests a date of post-1927 for this work, the date when the Ferens was built. Stylistically it can be dated to the late 1920s or early 1930s and, in a broader context, fits in with the tempera revival of this period. Relatively little is known about Beales, who lived in Hampstead, and is recorded as having exhibited a single painting at the Royal Academy in 1948.