Property From a Distinguished Canadian Private Collection
Girl with Lilac
Lot Closed
January 30, 05:16 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sophie Anderson
French
1823 - 1903
Girl with Lilac
signed with initials S.A. (lower left)
oil on canvas
canvas: 8 3/4 by 6 1/2 in.; 22 by 16.5 cm
framed: 16 1/4 by 14 1/4 in.; 41.5 by 36.5 cm
Girl with Lilac was bought by Dodgson in the same year that Alice in Wonderland was first published, whilst Dodgson lived in Oxford as a lecturer in mathematics – a position he held between 1855 and 1881. A photograph of his sitting-room at Christ Church, Oxford shows several other pictures by Anderson. Girl with Lilac stood on the mantlepiece, to the left, with a portrait of a girl named Minnie Morton on the right. It remained at Christ Church until Dodgson’s death in 1898 and then hung in his sister’s house, The Chestnuts in Guildford. It only left the Dodgson family in 1998, a hundred years after his death.