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Harry Bloomfield, born in London, was a close friend of Renoir and Guillaumin. He lived in Bruxelles and Paris, and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, and at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants, from 1906 to 1914.
This reclining nude on a blue mattress was very probably painted around 1910.
Source : British Painters in the parisian Shows, les Peintres britanniques dans les Salons parisiens, by Béatrice Crespon-Halotier, l'Echelle de Jacob, Dijon 2002, with the help of the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art, foreword by Olivier Meslay. (560pp)
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