In 1908, Wolseley (1884 - 1967) moved to Newlyn, where he soon formed a close friendship with Laura and Harold Knight, who, a year earlier, had relocated from the Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes. He worked from Sandy-Cove Studio, and often painted in the nearby Lamorna Valley. While Wolseley only spent around five years in Newlyn, during this time he painted several of his best works including 'The Fairy Story', which is now at Penlee House.
His work in Newlyn was strongly influenced by both Harold and Laura Knight, and the latter’s particularly impressionistic technique and subtle tonalities are echoed here, in Wolseley's simple composition of a young girl in a lawn dress knitting before a window in a white-washed cottage interior, which is bathed in the diffused daylight of an early spring.
[Oil on canvas, 90.2 x 78 cm]
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