Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
The Property of a Gentleman
The Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey, London
Auction Closed
December 6, 06:47 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Gentleman
David Roberts, R.A.
Edinburgh 1796–1864 London
The Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey, London
signed and dated lower left: David Roberts R.A., 1861
oil on canvas
unframed: 61.2 x 107 cm.; 24⅛ x 42⅛ in.
framed: 74.1 x 120.3 cm.; 29¼ x 47⅜ in
Painted for Charles Thomas Lucas (1820–1895), Sister House, Clapham and later Warnham Court, Sussex;
John James Moubray (1857–1928), Naemoor, Aberdeenshire and Killerby Hall, Yorkshire;
By whose estate sold, London, Christie’s, 10 May 1929, lot 45, to Leggatt, for 120 guineas;
From whom almost certainly acquired by William Eric Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley (1894–1969);
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Listed in the artist’s record books under works completed in 1861 as ‘The Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey’;
J. Ballantine, The Life of David Roberts, R.A., Edinburgh 1866, p. 253, no. 256, sketch from the record books, reproduced pp. 208–9;
M. Bills, ‘David Roberts The Houses of Parliament from Millbank and the London Series’, in Apollo, August 2003, pp. 3–9.
Probably, London, South Kensington Museum, International Exhibition, 1871, no. 280.
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