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Paul Peel 1860 - 1892

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 CAD
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Description

  • Paul Peel
  • Portrait of Madame Verdier
  • stamped in script by Blair Laing lower right Paul Peel; titled on four labels and dated c.1885-6 on two on the reverse

  • oil on canvas

  • 39.4 by 31.8 cm.
  • 15 ½ by 12 ½ in.

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Isaure Verdier Peel, the artist's wife

By descent to Marguerite Peel, the artist's daughter

G. Blair Laing, Toronto (purchased in 1963)

H.R. Milner Collection, Edmonton

Private Collection, Toronto

Exhibited

The H.R. Milner Collection, Edmonton Art Gallery,  1976, no. 51

Paul Peel Retrospective, London Regional Art Gallery, September 6 - October 26, 1986, no. 29

Literature

J.E. Martin, The H.R. Milner Collection, Edmonton Art Gallery, 1976, no. 51, reproduced

Victoria Baker, Paul Peel, London Regional Art Gallery, London, 1986, p. 120, no. 29, reproduced

Catalogue Note

This portrait is of Peel's Danish mother-in-law.