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JAMES STARK (BRITISH 1794-1859) A WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH A MOTHER AND CHILD ON A TRACK Oil on board 31.8 x 42cm (12½ x 16½ in.) Provenance: Sir Joseph Beecham, Bt. (1848-1916), Hampstead and St Helens Sir William Berry, Bart, later first Viscount Camrose (1879-1954), Hackwood Park, Hampshire, then by descent Sale, Christie's, Hackwood Park, Basingstoke, Hampshire. The Property of the Estate of the 2nd Viscount Camrose, 20th-22nd April 1998, lot 753 Richard Green, London Private collection, UK Literature: C. Reginald Grundy, 'Sir Joseph Beecham's Collection at Hampstead, Part 1', The Connoisseur, vol. XXXV, no.138, February 1913, pp.69-78, referred to as The Road through the Wood (p.76) Frank Rutter, 'Some pictures in the collection of Sir William Berry, Bart,' The Connoisseur, vol. LXXXII, no. 328, December 1928, p.203, pl VI as A path through the wood Sir William Berry, Bart purchased this work from the collection of Sir Joseph Beecham. Sir Berry was one of the most important British collectors of the inter-war years. His appearances at important sales held at Christie's and the annual fairs held at Olympia were often noted in the popular press of the day. Sir Berry amassed an impressive array of Old Master paintings including the work of Sir Anthony Van Dyck Nicolas Maes and Hendrik Gerritsz Pot as well as British masters, including the portraitists Sir Henry Raeburn RA and George Romney the landscapist Charlotte Nasmyth and this delightful work by James Stark