David Wilkie Wynfield
Lady of Shallot
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February 5, 09:31 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
David Wilkie Wynfield
British 1837 – 1887
Lady of Shallot
signed lower right: D W WYNFIELD
oil on canvas
canvas: 48 by 26 ½ in.; 121.9 by 67.3 cm
framed: 62 ½ by 41 ½ in.; 158.8 by 105.4 cm
Ezra H. Linley, St. Louis, Missouri;
Bequest to the City Art Museum of St. Louis, October 1911;
Private collection.
London, Royal Academy, 1863, no. 489
Annual Report of the Administrative Board of Control, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri 1910, pp. 22, 47, 49, 60, illustrated.
Catalogue of Paintings, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri 1915, no. w. 23. p. 208.
C. Poulson, Arthurian Literature X, Suffolk 1991, p. 112.
This composition was listed in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1863 with the following text: And at the closing of the day/she loosed the chain, and down she lay,/the broad stream bore her far away.