Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen
Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen
Richard Wilson, R.A.
The Destruction of Niobe's Children
Auction Closed
October 18, 03:29 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Richard Wilson, R.A.
Penegoes, Powys 1713/14 - 1782 Colomendy, Clwyd
The Destruction of Niobe's Children
oil on canvas
canvas: 17 7/8 by 24 1/4 in.; 45.6 by 61.6 cm.
framed: 25 1/2 by 30 1/2 in.; 64.8 by 77.5 cm.
His sale, London, Christie's, 6 May 1876, lot 135;
There acquired by Agnew's, London;
Arthur Morrison, Esq., High Barn, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 19-20 March 1946, lot 251;
There acquired by Chilvers;
Private collection;
By whom anonymously sold, London, Phillips, 11 November 1980, lot 84;
There acquired by Johnny van Haeften, London;
Dr. Richard Levy, New Orleans;
From whom acquired by Richard L. Feigen, 1982.
J. Spence, Polymetis, Book 2, London 1747, pp. 96-100 and 111;
W.G. Constable, Richard Wilson, London 1953, p. 163 (as a finished study);
R. Feigen and A. Guité, Richard Wilson and the British Arcadia, exhibition catalogue, New York 2010, unpaginated, cat. no. 8;
P. Spencer-Longhurst, et al., Richard Wilson Online, no. P90E (as possibly a reduced replica of the destroyed National Gallery version, made for the posthumous engraving), accessed 21 July 2021.
London, Tate Gallery, March - October 1930 (lent by Arthur Morrison);
Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Works by Richard Wilson, R.A., November - December 1936, no. 9;
Chicago, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Six Centuries of Myth and Legend, February - April 1988, no. 31;
Katonah, New York, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah Collects, 5 April - 1 June 1997;
New York, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Richard Wilson and the British Arcadia, 29 April - 25 June 2010, no. 8.
ENGRAVED
W. Sharp and S. Smith after Wilson, Niobe, 1788, National Museum Wales, Cardiff (NMW A 11416) and several reprints.