Lot 103
  • 103

Richard Barrett Davis

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Richard Barrett Davis
  • Sir Roger de Coverly and his Hounds
  • signed R. B. Davis. and dated 1843.  (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 34 1/2 by 44 1/2 in.
  • 87.6 by 113 cm

Provenance

J. G. Frith
Sale: Chrisite's, London, July 30, 1981, lot 433, illustrated
Richard Green, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Leeds, National exhibition of works of art, 1868

Condition

This painting has been lined. Under UV, generous inpainting to address craquellure, frame abrasions and as re-enforcements to details in figures fluoresces, as well as in broad strokes of overpainting.
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Catalogue Note

This work is sold together with an copy of The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers From the Spectator by Addison, Steele and Budgell (New York, 1892).