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Ernest Higgins Rigg (1868-1947)

The Goose Girl

Medium: Oil on canvas laid on board
Provenance: Signed
Image Dimensions: 17½" x 13½" (44.45cm x 34.29cm)
Price: £4,500.00
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The Goose Girl by Ernest Higgins Rigg reflects the artist’s engagement with rural genre subjects, a key aspect of his practice alongside landscape and portraiture. Trained in Bradford and at the Académie Julian in Paris, Rigg absorbed elements of French plein-air painting, bringing a lighter palette and naturalistic immediacy to his work. A member of the Staithes Group, he shared in a broader movement toward depicting everyday rural life with direct observation and sympathy. In The Goose Girl, this focus is evident in the central figure—likely a young rural worker—set within an open landscape. The subject aligns with a long-standing European motif, where pastoral labour is rendered with quiet dignity rather than sentimentality. Rigg’s handling remains informal yet attentive, balancing figure and setting so that neither dominates. The result is a scene grounded in lived experience, characteristic of early 20th-century British impressionistic naturalism.

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