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The painting is housed within its original frame and signed in the lower left

which is crisscrossed at the front with ribbon

If you peer through the door on the right-hand side

Medium: Oil on boardOverall size: 20” x 14½” / 51cm x 37cmYear of creation: c

Henry Charles Clifford, The Willow Pool 1930s com/en/lot/lot-5175782https://wwwA beautiful impressionistic oil painting depicting three girls, perhaps sisters, playing by a pond under a canopy of small trees. The artist, Henry Charles Clifford (1861 1947), trained towards the end of the 19th century when the French impressionists were in full swing and its very likely that he visited Paris during his studies. You can certainly see the influence of Monet particularly in Cliffords handling of the water and flora. Note how the