European & British Art, Part I
European & British Art, Part I
A Vision of Arcadia – An Important English Private Collection
George Dunlop Leslie, R.A.
Pot Pourri
Auction Closed
July 13, 12:35 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Vision of Arcadia – An Important English Private Collection
George Dunlop Leslie, R.A.
British
1835 - 1921
Pot Pourri
oil on canvas
Unframed: 99 by 99cm., 39 by 39in.
Framed: 128 by 128cm., 50½ by 50½in.
William Fenton of Dutton Manor, Ribchester
Sale: Christie’s, London, 5 May 1879, lot 115 (1,180 gns to Agnews)
Thomas Henry Ismay of Dawpool, Wirral
Possibly, Cooling Galleries, London
Mrs Fenning (sale: Christie’s, London, 10 July 1970, lot 170)
Richard Green, London
Norman Blake, Esq., by 1977
Coughton Galleries, Ltd., where purchased by a private collector (sale: Sotheby’s, London, 6 November 1996, lot 323)
Richard Green, London
Sale: Christie’s, London, 27 November 2002, lot 13
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Times, 2 May 1874, p. 163
Saturday Review, 16 May 1874, p. 622
Art Journal, June 1874, p. 163
Spectator, June 1874, p. 692
Athenaeum, 11 May 1878, p. 609
Athenaeum, 16 July 1887, p. 92
Athenaeum, 14 April 1900, p. 473
Wilfrid Meynell, The Modern School of Art, vol. 111, n.d., p. 113
Christopher Wood, Dictionary of Victorian Painters, 1971, p. 316, illustrated
Mary Cowling, Victorian Figurative Painting: Domestic Genre and the Victorian Social Scene, London, 2000, pp. 54-56, illustrated