Godward’s Dream comes true at £320,000

Previously only known from a 1910 print and unrecorded for half a century, this 20in x 2ft 6in (50 x 75cm) oil by John William Godward (1861-1922) was sold by Lawrences in Crewkerne on October 12.

Painted in 1909, Summer Idleness: Day Dreams had passed through Christie's in London in 1937 (when i…

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