Lot 90
  • 90

Henry John Boddington

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Henry John Boddington
  • A Weedy Branch of the Thames
  • signed indistinctly H. Boddington and inscribed on an old paper label on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 44 3/8 by 67 1/2 in.
  • 112.7 by 171.4 cm

Provenance

Sale: Doyle's, New York, May 5, 1982, lot 62
Pannonia Galleries, New York
Williams & Son, London (acquired from the above in 1983)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

London, The Society of British Artists, 1853, no. 531

Literature

Jan Reynolds, The Williams Family of Painters, Suffolk, 1975, p. 75

Condition

Lined; under UV: a few scattered dashes of older generation of retouch in the sky, four by one inch vertical area of inpainting on right edge, a few small scattered dashes of inpainting in the foliage.
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