Clausen’s Rose shows her face at Liverpool auction
ANGELIC rosy-cheeked village girls were George Clausen’s (1852-1944) staple subject matter. During his time living in the Berkshire village of Cookham Dean, Clausen was particularly preoccupied with this idyllic rural subject matter and, from around 1889, he began to make a series of studies and paintings of a local child, Rose Grimsdale.
The subject of this 16 x 12in (41 x 30cm) oil on canvas, above, signed G. Clausen to the bottom righ…