Irish Art

Irish Art

Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit

Sir John Lavery, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A.

Mrs Adam at Dinner

Lot Closed

November 23, 04:52 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit

Sir John Lavery, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A.

1856 - 1941

Mrs Adam at Dinner


signed J. Lavery, dated 90 and inscribed To MRS ADAM (lower right)

oil on canvas

unframed: 56 by 46cm.; 22 by 18in.

framed: 84 by 75.5cm.; 33 by 29¾in.

Executed in 1890. 


We are grateful to Kenneth McConkey for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. 

Sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 November 1989, lot 40
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 22 May 1997, lot 248, where acquired by Sir Michael Smurfit
Kenneth McConkey, Sir John Lavery, Canongate, Edinburgh, 1993, pp. 74, 69, illustrated fig. 74
Kenneth McConkey, John Lavery, A Painter and his World, Atelier Books, Edinburgh, 2010, pp. 51, 53, illustrated fig. 59, 217-8 (note 1)

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