Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, R.A.

Jacko, a macaque monkey

Lot Closed

July 6, 01:58 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of the late Alys Rickett

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, R.A.

London 1802 - 1873

Jacko, a macaque monkey

Watercolour and bodycolour over traces of pencil;

signed with the artist's initials lower left

86 by 108 mm

Given by the artist's executors to Mrs Jane Eliza Rice, née Stillman, an employee within Landseer's household;
S. Shrubb, Upwood, 1896;
with the Fine Art Society, London, by circa 1965,
by whom sold to Ronald John Rickett (d. 1970),
by family descent to the present owners

According to a transcription of an old inscription, which survives on the reverse of the current frame, this watercolour dates to 1830 and was later given to Mrs Rice, a servant within the artist's household.

The macaque monkey known as Jacko was also drawn by John Frederick Lewis, R.A. who included an image of him as plate 11 in his publication: Etchings of Domestic Subjects (London 1836).¹

The present work has descended in the family of Ronald John Rickett, known as John, who was a director of British Pictures at Sotheby’s in the 1960s.

1. Lewis's original drawing for the etching was sold as part of the Sir Bruce Ingram collection in these Room, 17 February 1965, lot 658.