'Bosom Friends', 1881 signed on the poster top left 'C T Garland' oil on canvas 65 x 40 cm Footnote: Provenance: The Arthur Jeffress Gallery, London, where purchased on 12 January 1961 for 84gns, as 'English School, c. 1860, At the Railway Station' Exhibited: London, The Society of British Artists, 1881/2, as 'Bosom Friends', no. 140; London, The Royal Academy, 1890, as 'Bosom Friends', no. 8 Literature: John Hadfield, The Saturday Book , 1962, p. 25; John Hadfield, Every Picture Tells a Story - Images of Victorian Life , London, 1985, illus. p.97 Charles Trevor Garland specialised in genre scenes depicting children and animals. He exhibited twenty-seven paintings at the Royal Academy between 1874 and 1901, sixteen at the Society of Artists. The present painting is believed to have been exhibited twice under the title 'Bosom Friends', first at the Society of Artists in 1881 and again at the Royal Academy in 1890 (Hadfield, p. 96). Condition report: Signed above the wood panelling on the leftmost poster in the background. Also inscribed indistinctly lower right. Oil on canvas which is unlined with an artist supplier's stamp on the reverse. The canvas tension is poor causing vertical undulations across the surface. In the lower right corner the undulations are causing cracking to the paint layer with raised edges. There are localised areas of wrinkling in the brown paint passages. The varnish is yellowed and slightly dull. There are a few scuffs and scratched across the surface.