Property from the Cole Family
John Liston Byam Shaw
Rex Vicat Cole
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December 5, 02:55 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from the Cole Family
John Byam Liston Shaw
Chennai 1872–1919 London
Rex Vicat Cole
titled upper edge: Reginald Vicat Cole and signed and inscribed lower edge: This little portrait was drawn, painted & presented by Byam Shaw / to his Friend Vicat Cole in the month of April 1898, in exchange / for an Easel, formerly the property of his Father, Vicat Cole R.A / & of his Grandfather, George Cole of no. 1 Kensington Crescent / in which studio this portrait was painted.
oil on panel
unframed: 35.5 x 30.3 cm.; 14 x 12 in.
framed: 77 x 55 cm.; 30¼ x 21¾ in.
By descent through the family of the sitter to the present owner.
Portsmouth, Portsmouth City Museum & Art Gallery and Bradford, Cartwright Hall, The Cole Family, 1 April – 26 June 1988 and 15 July – 30 August 1988, n.n.
R. V. Cole, The Art & Life of Byam Shaw, London 1932, pp. 90 and 215, reproduced.
John Liston Byam Shaw and Reginald (Rex) Vicat Cole (1870–1940) were close friends. In 1910 they founded the Vicat Cole School of Art in Kensington. Winifred Nicholson and Bernard Dunstan studied there as well as the inventor James Dyson. Vicat Cole later wrote The Art & Life of Byam Shaw, published in 1932.
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