Evening Light, The Square, Audlem, Cheshire

James Hamilton Hay (1874-1916)

Price

£17,500

Signed

Signed and dated 1908

Medium

Oil on canvas board

Dimensions

19 x 23 inches

Exhibited

'A Century of British Art: 1900-1945', Chris Beetles Gallery, 21 June-17 July 2021, No 8

The brightly lit shop in the centre of the painting is "Beaman's "- a sweet shop. The present owner of the shop George Beaman only died recently in 2026 at 99 years old (born 1926) !

https://www.audlem.org/news/a-letter-to-george.html

It was his parents' shop before that - so they would very likely have been at the counter at the time of JHH's painting that scene !
James Hamilton Hay lived in Audlem for a short time around 1909 at a place called Taintree House.

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/25413