European Art: Paintings & Sculpture
European Art: Paintings & Sculpture
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June 18, 01:29 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Lot Details
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SIR FRANCIS BERNARD DICKSEE, P.R.A.
1853-1928
CHAPEL BRIDGE AT LAKE LUCERNE
watercolour with bodycolour
39 by 28cm., 15 by 11in.
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Bequeathed to the artist's brother Sidney Dicksee and thence by descent until 2014;
Wooley & Wallis, Salisbury, 19 March 2014, lot 81
Simon Toll, Frank Dicksee - His Art and Life, 2016, illustrated p.60, pp.59, 60, 227, cat.no.F.D.1884.3
Dicksee painted the Kappellbrucke (Chapel Bridge) on Lake Lucerne in 1884 whilst on a sketching holiday with the sculptor William Hamo Thornycroft. The trip was paid for with the last of the money from Dicksee's Travelling Scholarship won at the Royal Academy Schools.