DARWIN | A watercolour portrait of Darwin by John Collier

[DARWIN, CHARLES]--JOHN COLLIER

Portrait of Charles Darwin

300 x 230mm., watercolour, inscribed and signed below: “Charles Robert Darwin 1809-1882/ Study by John Collier”, framed and glazed

A FINE STUDY for the 1881 portrait painted for the Linnaean Society (there is also a later copy by Collier, dated 1883, in the National Portrait Gallery). Collier (1850-1934) was the son-in-law of Thomas Henry Huxley, famously known as “Darwin’s bulldog”.

PROVENANCE:

Un-named consignor, sale in these rooms, 15 July 2009, lot 9