George Frederick Watts

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Description

George Frederick Watts
Blanche
oil on canvas
27 by 19 3/4 in.
68.6 by 50.1 cm

Provenance

Charles Hilditch Rickards, Esq (and sold: Christie's, London, April 2, 1887, lot 52)
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London
W.G. Rawlinson, Esq., by 1904
Mr. Carver, Bitteswell, Leicestershire
The Misses Belcher, Bitteswell, Leicestershire
Sale: Sotheby's, London, June 20, 1989, lot 40, illustrated

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1875, no. 266
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Collection of the Works of G.F. Watts, 1881-2, no.128
Manchester, Watts Memorial Exhibition, 1905, no. 102

Literature

Mrs. M.S. Watts, Catalogue of the Works of G.F. Watts, vol. I, p. 20, "This is the first portrait Mr. Watts painted of little Blanche Clostoum, who is seated in an arm chair, and wears red stockings."

Catalogue Note

Painted circa 1875.