Lot 207
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FREDERICK JOHN MEYER | The children of Roger Staples Horman-Fisher, of Bentworth, Hampshire

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Meyer
  • The children of Roger Staples Horman-Fisher, of Bentworth, Hampshire
  • oil on canvas
  • 181 x 133.5 cm.; 71 1/4  x 52 1/2  in.

Provenance

Roger Staples Horman-Fisher, Esq., Bentworth Hall, Hampshire;
By inheritance to Elsie Fry, Derwen House, Churt, Surrey; 
By inheritance to her cousin Mabel Zoe Watson (d. 1972); 
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 July 1991, lot 132;
With Julian Simon Fine Art, London, 1991;
From whom acquired by the present owner.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, The Sixty-Sixth Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1834, no. 250.

Condition

The painting has a firm lining and the surface is quite flat. There is some minor frame abrasion to the edge of the canvas on the left but otherwise there are no signs of extant damage or loss of paint. Examination under ultraviolet light reveals extensive infilling to craquelure in the flesh tones and the white of the girl's dress. There is some strengthening to the drapery, particularly in the shadows of the right hand figure and a small number of scattered minor retouchings throughout. Held in an impressive gilt neo-classical store frame with stylised scallop shells at the four corners.
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