Walter Elmer Schofield (American, 1867–1944) View of Eastby Crag, Embsay, Yorkshire Signed 'Schofield' bottom right, oil on canvas 24 x 36 1/8 in. (61 x 91.8cm) Executed circa 1906-1907. Provenance The Artist. Private Collection, Ribchester, United Kingdom. Private Collection, Scotland, United Kingdom Note In 1903, Walter Schofield and his wife Murielle Redmayne settled in the artist's community of St. Ives, Cornwall. The present view of Eastby was most likely executed while the couple was on vacation in the nearby town of Ingleton during the summer of 1906, and finished by the artist once back in his St. Ives studio in 1907. That same year, the painting was included in Schofield's Cornish Show Day Exhibition. It was then sold locally by the artist himself circa 1910 and remained unnoticed until its recent rediscovery. Condition report: Frame: 31 x 43 x 1 3/4 in. The relined canvas in overall fair to good condition. We notice hairline (thin) craquelure throughout the work (especially visible in the sky). With scattered, relatively extensive restoration in the sky along the top outer edge of the work, and along the hill. We notice the canvas ground is exposed in some parts of the same outer edge, especially to the left. Some minor repairs also visible at center left, along the left outer edge, at center above the stream, as well as at bottom right quadrant. See Specialist's pictures for more details.