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Sanford Robinson Gifford

Kenilworth Castle

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January 24, 05:00 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Bid

25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Sanford Robinson Gifford

1823 - 1880


Kenilworth Castle

signed indistinctly S.R. Gifford and dated 1858 (lower left)

oil on canvas

15 ⅝ by 12 ⅛ in.

39.7 by 30.8 cm.

Executed in 1858.


We are grateful to Dr. Ila Weiss, the leading Sanford Robinson Gifford scholar, for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

Nena Brooks, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1857-58)

Private Collection, New York (acquired by 1995)

Skinner, Boston, 26 September 1997, lot 261

Alexandre Gallery, New York

Questroyal Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above in 1999)

Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner

John F. Weird, A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N. A., New York, 1881, no. 124, p. 19

Exh. Cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, 2003-04, fig. 41, pp. 7, 20 (note 20), 59; p. 60, illustrated