Property from a British Private Collection
Frank Holl, R.A., R.W.S.
The First Violin
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April 10, 12:44 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a British Private Collection
Frank Holl, R.A., R.W.S.
London 1845–1888
The First Violin
signed and dated lower right: Frank Holl / 1884
oil on canvas
unframed: 127 x 101 cm.; 50 x 40 in.
framed: 151.5 x 127 cm.; 59½ x 50 in.
The artist;
Thence by inheritance to his wife Annie Laura Holl (1845–1931);
From whom acquired by Mr H.H. Tonks of Sutton Coldfield, by 1885.
A.M. Holl Reynolds, The Life and Work of Frank Holl (1845–1888), London 1912, p. 239;
M. Bills (ed.), Frank Holl: Emerging from the Shadows, London 2013, p. 80.
The model for The First Violin was Holl's third daughter Nina, who posed for several other pictures by her father, including Daughter of the House of 1879 (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne) and Did You Ever Kill Anybody, Father? of 1884 (Christie's, 17 June 2014, lot 84) which was painted as a companion to the present picture. Both pictures were given by Holl to his wife and purchased after his death by his most loyal of patrons Mr Tonks of Sutton Coldfield.
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