Lot 124
  • 124

David Alison, RSA, RP 1882-1955

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • David Alison, RSA, RP
  • portrait of mrs john brown and her daughters
  • signed l.l.: David Alison / 1919; signed on the reverse on the overlap
  • oil on canvas, unframed 
  • 101.5 by 76 cm.; 40 by 30 in.

Provenance

Prof. John Rankine, K.C.;
Sotheby's, Gleneagles, 28 August 1978, lot 708;
Private collection

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1920, No. 294

Condition

The canvas is original. The lot is offered unframed and there are various scuff marks to the edges and a small hole to the canvas on the extreme right edge. Also some scattered chips to the paint along the door area of the right. Scattered surface dirt.
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