Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
Property from a Private Collection
John Linnell
Hay and Haste
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September 20, 12:50 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
John Linnell
London 1792–1882 Redhill
Hay and Haste
signed and indistinctly dated lower right: JLinnell / 75
oil on canvas
unframed: 72.4 x 100.4 cm.; 28½ x 39½ in.
framed: 86 x 113.1 cm.; 33⅞ x 44½ in.
By descent to the artist's family;
David Price (d. 1892), London;
His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 2 April 1892, lot 84 (as 'The Haystack'), for 600 guineas to Agnew;
With Agnew's, London;
From whom acquired by Major Joicey on 4 April 1894, for 693 guineas (according to Agnew's stock books);
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 July 1995, lot 108;
Where acquired by the father of the present owner.
Listed in the artist's sketchbook under 1874–75;
A.T. Story, Life of John Linnell, London 1892, vol. II, p. 282;
D. Linnell, Blake, Palmer, Linnell and Co.: Life of John Linnell, Lewes 1994, p. 372, no. 351a (as executed in 1874).
Possibly, Huddersfield, Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition, 1888.