European & British Paintings Day Auction
European & British Paintings Day Auction
Property from an Australian Private Collection
Sir Edward John Poynter, Bt., P.R.A., R.W.S.
Freia
Auction Closed
December 7, 01:32 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Australian Private Collection
Sir Edward John Poynter, P.R.A., R.W.S.
British
1836 - 1919
Freia
signed with monogram and dated 1865 lower right
watercolour with bodycolour on paper laid on canvas and titled and signed Freia/ Edward Poynter ARA on an old label attached to the backboard
Unframed: 33 by 25cm., 13 by 10in.
Framed: 53 by 46cm., 21 by 18in.
Probably bought from the artist by Ernest Gambart in 1865
Purchased from the above by Jonathan Tong, with whom it remained until his death in 1881; bequeathed to his widow Eleanor Tong (later Mrs William Coltart of Woodleigh, Birkenhead); her sale: Brown & Brown, Liverpool, 31 October 1917
Purchased from the above by Harold Bickersteth of Birkenhead; thence by descent to the present owners
Liverpool, International Exhibition, 1886, no.863, lent by William Coltart
Glasgow, International Exhibition, 1901, number not known
London, The Fine Art Society, Watercolours and Studies by Sir E. J. Poynter, Bart., P.R.A., November 1903, no. 151, lent by Mr. Wm. Collart (sic)
London, National Gallery of British Art, Loan Exhibition of Works by Pre-Raphaelite Painters from Collections in Lancashire, 1913, no. 38, lent by Mrs W. Coltart
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Autumn Exhibition, 1922, no.20, lent by H. Bickerseth