Lot 24
  • 24

Walter Dendy Sadler

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Walter Dendy Sadler
  • Tying a Fly - Izaak Walton and John Offley at the water's edge
  • signed l.l.: W. Dendy Sadler 84 P.
  • oil on canvas
  • 86.5 by 122cm., 34 by 48in.

Condition

STRUCTURE The canvas has been relined. PAINT SURFACE The paint surface is in good overall condition, it may benefit from a light clean; otherwise, ready to hang. ULTRAVIOLET UV light reveals a few scattered lines of cosmetic retouching to the outlines of the figures and the foreground, also retouching to frame abrasions but generally original condition. FRAME Held in a modern plaster gilt frame in fair condition.
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Catalogue Note

Izaak Walton published the first of many editions of his famous discourse The Compleat Angler in 1653.  It was dedicated to his dear friend and Scholar John Offley.  Sadler captures the close nature of this friendship in the present work along with the idyllic English countryside, which is so beautifully evoked in the famous treatise.