N. C. WYETH | WHEN HE COMES HE WILL RULE OVER THE WHOLE WORLD

The artist

Louis Seaber (gift from the above)

By descent

Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, Delaware

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2012

Henry Van Dyke, "The Lost Boy," Harper's Monthly Magazine, vol. CXXVIII, no. 763, December 1913, frontispiece illustration

Henry Van Dyke, The Lost Boy, New York, 1914, frontispiece illustration

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Story of Jesus Christ, Boston, Massachusetts, 1926, cover label illustration

Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 259

Mike Tressler, "Lost N.C. Wyeth Painting Turns Up," News Journal, August 23, 2001, section B10, p. A1+

Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. I, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 2008, no. I.490, p. 283, illustrated

Please note this lot is accompanied by a copy of Henry van Dyke's The Lost Boy for which the present worked served as the frontispiece illustration.