Important British Paintings 1500-1850

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Lot 54
  • 54

James Stark 1794-1859

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Description

  • James Stark
  • Crossing the ford
  • oil on panel
  • ENGRAVED: The London Art Union Prize Annual, 1845, plate XXXVI

Provenance

C. Barton (by whom the picture was selected as the £40 London Art Union Prize);
Sir Herbert Stanley, his sale, Ashbey's Galleries, Cape Town, 8th February 1956, lot 16, bt. Cape Tercentenary Foundation for 300 gns;
Sold by Cape Tercentenary Foundation, Sotheby's, 16th November 1983, lot 75

Exhibited

Manchester, Queen's Park Art Gallery, Winter Exhibition, 1903, no.189;
Cape Town, South African National Gallery, on loan 1956-1983