This painting depicts a white haired couple looking adoringly at a pet monkey despite the apparent destruction that the animal has done to their home. The top corner of the cabinet door has been broken off, the skin of a tambourine has been punctured, a plate is in pieces along the floor, the table cloth is askew, and the articles atop the cabinet are strewn across it. A small white dog lays down beside its bowl, looking up at the couple. The monkey is wearing a military uniform with a kepi hat.

Weight (lbs): 6.25
Height (In.): 29.5
Width (In.): 26.5
Depth (In.): 2
Size: 21.0 x 16.5"
Maker: Unknown
Material: Oil Paint, Canvas
Date: C. 1884
Provenance:
Condition: Frame rubbing along the edges of the canvas, no noticed in-paint.
History: Alfred Jeffries 1878-1884, A. Jeffries & Co 1884-1886, Moulding & Artists’ Materials Manufactory Co Ltd 1886-1887. At 2-3 Maynard St, Bloomsbury, London 1878-1884, 443 Oxford St 1880-1882, 107 New Oxford St and Grove Works, Este Road/ Estate Road, Clapham Junction 1883-1887. Manufacturers of mouldings, frames, colours and canvas. Later trading as Alfred Jeffries & Co, 19 Pilgrim St, Ludgate Hill EC 1894-1898, 95 New Oxford St 1896-1908, picture framemakers. The business advertised as 'Manufacturers of White Mouldings, Picture Frames, Artists' Colors and Canvas' (The Year's Art 1884). It had an account with the artists' suppliers, Roberson, 1878-85 (Woodcock 1997) and supplied that business with some gold leaf, gilt frames and picture stretchers (Hamilton Kerr Institute, MS 183-1993). Jeffries was a supplier of canvases to artists and a stencilled canvas mark has been recorded, 1878 (information from Cathy Proudlove). It would seem that Alfred Jeffries took Max Hübner (qv) and Arthur Wellesley Maxwell into partnership to trade as A. Jeffries & Co, a business which was then sold to the newly formed but short lived Moulding & Artists’ Materials Manufactory Co Ltd in 1886, in which Hübner and Maxwell were among the shareholders. The documentation for setting up the new company reveals that Jeffries & Co traded at 107 New Oxford St, the Grove Works in Battersea and at Woodbridge in Suffolk.
Condition: Frame rubbing along the edges of the canvas, no noticed in-paint. History: Alfred Jeffries 1878-1884, A. Jeffries & Co 1884-1886, Moulding & Artists’ Materials Manufactory Co Ltd 1886-1887. At 2-3 Maynard St, Bloomsbury, London 1878-1884, 443 Oxford St 1880-1882, 107 New Oxford St and Grove Works, Este Road/ Estate Road, Clapham Junction 1883-1887. Manufacturers of mouldings, frames, colours and canvas. Later trading as Alfred Jeffries & Co, 19 Pilgrim St, Ludgate Hill EC 1894-1898, 95 New Oxford St 1896-1908, picture framemakers. The business advertised as 'Manufacturers of White Mouldings, Picture Frames, Artists' Colors and Canvas' (The Year's Art 1884). It had an account with the artists' suppliers, Roberson, 1878-85 (Woodcock 1997) and supplied that business with some gold leaf, gilt frames and picture stretchers (Hamilton Kerr Institute, MS 183-1993). Jeffries was a supplier of canvases to artists and a stencilled canvas mark has been recorded, 1878 (information from Cathy Proudlove). It would seem that Alfred Jeffries took Max Hübner (qv) and Arthur Wellesley Maxwell into partnership to trade as A. Jeffries & Co, a business which was then sold to the newly formed but short lived Moulding & Artists’ Materials Manufactory Co Ltd in 1886, in which Hübner and Maxwell were among the shareholders. The documentation for setting up the new company reveals that Jeffries & Co traded at 107 New Oxford St, the Grove Works in Battersea and at Woodbridge in Suffolk.