Benjamin Williams Leader R.A. 1831-1923

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Description

Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A.
severn side, sabrina's stream at kempsey on the river severn
signed and dated l.r.: B.W. LEADER. 1889; also signed and inscribed on the stretcher: n 02 Sabrina's Stream
oil on canvas

Provenance

Arthur Tooth and Sons; J. Leger and Son, London, September 1960

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1889, no. 654

Literature

Ruth Wood, Benjamin Williams Leader RA 1831-1923, His Life and Paintings, 1998, pp. 77, 129;
Frank Lewis, Benjamin Williams Leader R.A. 1831-1923, 1971, pg. 42

Catalogue Note

'Delighted with the paintings by Constable and Turner... he wrote on his return that he hoped to make his pictures 'the better for having seen them'. He seemed to have achieved this end, in his own view at least, with a Worcestershire Severn scene 'Sabrina's Stream', which he called 'Severn Side'. When the canvas was in its frame, and Leader had improved it, he was so pleased that he said he would 'not object... (to it)... hanging alongside a Constable' (Ruth Wood, Benjamin Williams Leader RA 1831-1923, His Life and Paintings, 1998, pg. 77).