SIDNEY HAROLD METEYARD | Lucifer and His Angels

Sotheby’s, Belgravia, 6 October 1980, lot 51, where purchased by Seymour Stein

London, Barbican Art Gallery, The Last Romantics – The Romantic Tradition in British Art – Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer, 1989, no.87

This watercolour is in excellent original condition. It is clean and ready to hang. FRAME The picture is contained in a simple wooden frame with a clean mount and under glass.
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Meteyard’s watercolour designs for Hodder & Stourton’s 1910 illustrated 'The Golden Legend' by Henry Longfellow, were his most ambitious and celebrated illustrative project. There were twenty-five and many of the original watercolours survive; the present watercolour being made for opposite the prologue; ‘The spire of Stasbourg Cathedral. Night and Storm. Lucifer, with the Powers of the Air, trying to tear down the cross.'