拍品 60
  • 60

BENJAMIN WILLIAMS LEADER, R.A. | A Relic of the Past

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30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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描述

  • Benjamin Williams Leader
  • A Relic of the Past
  • signed and dated l.l.: B.W.LEADER. 1897; further signed on the stretcher
  • oil on canvas
  • 93 by 146 cm., 36½ by 57½in.

來源

Sold by the artist to Agnew's, London, for £500 in December 1897;
Leggatt Bros., London, 1898;
Knight, Frank & Rutley, London, 7-12 December 1931, lot number untraced;
F.J. Lawes;
Christie's, London, 11 December 1942, lot 101 to 'Thompson';
Christie's, London, 29 March 1996, lot 124;
Christie's, London, 15 December 2011, lot 67, where purchased by the present owner

出版

Frank Lewis, Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. 1831-1923, 1971, p.46, no.406.
Ruth Wood, Benjamin Williams Leader, RA 1831-1923; His Life and Paintings, 1998, p.90, pl.48

Condition

This picture is lined - the lining is providing a stable support. There are small areas of localised craquelure - to the trees on the extreme left and to the sunset on the right. Otherwise the picture is clean and ready to hang. UNDER ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT There are small retouchings along the edges where the rebate of the frame has rubbed the paint surface. The are of horizontal retouching in the top right corner. There are minor retouching to the figure group on the right and very minor isolated spots of retouching in the sky and lower right corner and the centre of the lower edge and centre of the left edge. The retouchings have been well executed and are not excessive. FRAME The picture is contained in a moulded plaster gilt frame.
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拍品資料及來源

Benjamin William Leader moved from his native Worcestershire in 1889 to Burrows Cross House in Surrey which was designed and built for the portrait painter Frank Holl who died not long after its completion. Situated on a ridge near the village of Gomshall, this house was to be Leader's home for the rest of his life. The surrounding countryside provided Leader with a wealth of inspiration and subject matter for his paintings.

A Relic of the Past
depicts the Old Malt House (now Malt House Cottages) in Gomshall. The Sixteenth Century timber-framed building with its distinctive red-brick chimneys was painted several times by Leader and provided a nostalgic model for his idyllic English landscape style.