Tabletop Still-Life with Fruit and Gamebird

Oil on canvas, signed lower right.

Painting Size: 16” x 20”
Frame size: 21.5” x 25.5”

Bale, a still life painter from London, flourished from 1868-1875. His works were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1872, and at the Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street. His subjects were mainly fruit and flowers, painted in a style derived from George Lance and William Duffield.

Sources:
Benezit, E. Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs
Wood, Christopher. Dictionary of British Art. Vol. IV, Victorian Painters