Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

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Samuel Palmer, R.W.S

Tintern Abbey, Wales

Auction Closed

January 31, 05:59 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Samuel Palmer, R.W.S

Newington 1805 - 1881 Redhill

Tintern Abbey, Wales



Watercolor and bodycolor over traces of pencil, heightened with gum arabic;

signed lower left: SPalmer

203 by 419 mm; 8 by 16½ in.

By descent to Alfred Herbert Palmer (1853-1932), the artist's son;
Victor Rienaecker (1887 - after 1957),
his sale, London, Christie’s, 21 February 1947, lot 91, bt The Fine Art Society,
with The Fine Art Society, London,
Mrs Robert Skinner, by 1961
by family descent to the present owners
R. Lister, Catalogue Raisonné of the works of Samuel Palmer, Cambridge 1988, p. 109, no. 236 (as untraced since 1961)
London, The Fine Art Society, 1947, no. 84;
Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Samuel Palmer…. An exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, 1961, no. 83