European & British Art, Part I

European & British Art, Part I

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Property from a Dutch Private Collection

Ford Madox Brown

Cordelia at the Bedside of Lear

Auction Closed

July 13, 12:35 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Dutch Private Collection

Ford Madox Brown

British

1821 - 1893

Cordelia at the Bedside of Lear


signed FM BROWN lower right

oil on board, arched top

Unframed: 17 by 23cm., 6¾ by 9in.

Framed: 38 by 43cm., 15 by 17in.

Sold on behalf of Brown on 26 March 1859 by David T. White (picture dealer) to Benjamin Godfrey Windus Esq. of Gadsden, Tottenham Green, Middlesex (sale: Christie's, London, 14, 15 and 17 February 1868, lot 300)
Thomas Brocklebank Esq. of Wateringbury Place, Kent by 1911; thence to his widow and sold by her executors (sale: Christie's, London, 8 July 1938, lot 15)
Acquired by the aunt of the present owner


Ford M. Hueffer, Ford Madox Brown – A Record of his Life and Work, 1896, p. 436
Mary Bennett, Ford Madox Brown, exhibition catalogue for the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1964, p. 16
Virginia Surtees (ed.), The Diary of Ford Madox Brown, 1981, p. 157