Lot 304
  • 304

Benjamin Barker of Bath

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Benjamin Barker of Bath
  • A wooded river landscape with drovers
  • signed and dated on the rock lower right: B. Barker pinxt1807
  • oil on canvas, unframed

Provenance

Sir John Gladstone, 1st Bt (1764–1851), Fasque House, Kincardineshire;
Thence by descent to his eldest son Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Bt (1804–89), older brother of William Ewart Gladstone (1809–98), British Prime Minister;
Thence by family descent at Fasque House, Kincardineshire, until sold London, Christie's, 7 May 2008, lot 149;
With John Mitchell Fine Paintings, London, 2008;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's South Kensington, 8 July 2011, lot 137.

Literature

Possibly Fasque House Inventory, 1851: Large Drawing Room: '14 Paintings - £75.0.0.'