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Happy Days

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A smiling man in a hat, overcoat, shirt and tie sits on a dark red upholstered seat at a table in a bar, squeezing a lemon into a glass of water on a circular stainless steel tray. On the tray there is also another lemon, three sugar cubes and a plate with a bread roll and butter knife. A newspaper is propped up against a cut-glass water carafe. John Daniel Revel was a painter of portraits and figure studies. Born in Dundee, he studied architecture and then painting at the Royal College of Art in London where he met his wife, the painter Lucy Elizabeth Babington Mackenzie. He was Director of Chelsea School of Art from 1912 to 1924, the youngest in the school’s history. His time there was interrupted by the First World War when he served in the artillery in India.

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Title

Happy Days

Date

1924

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 101.6 x W 76.2 cm

Accession number

3176

Acquisition method

gift from the artist, 1963

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

signed/dated

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