(Women) Artists
(Women) Artists
Property from a British Private Collection
Florence Claxton
'Woman's Work' A Medley
Lot Closed
March 16, 02:01 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a British Private Collection
Florence Claxton
British
1838-1920
'Woman's Work' A Medley
indistinctly signed, dated and inscribed Florence Anne Claxton / 1861 / sold on a label attached to the stretcher and indistinctly inscribed with verses from Aesop’s Fables on a label attached to the stretcher
oil on canvas
Unframed: 51 by 76.5cm., 20 by 30in.
Framed: 73.5 by 100cm., 29 by 39¼in.
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 23 November 1982, lot 57
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
John Bull, 23 March 1861, p. 187
London City Press, 22 June 1861, p. 6
Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 18 March 1874, p. 8
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Susan P. Casteras and Linda H. Peterson, A Struggle for Fame: Victorian Women Artists and Authors, New Haven, 1994, pp. 29-30
Jan Marsh and Pamela Gerrish Nunn, Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists, Manchester City Art Galleries, 1997, p. 10
Deborah Cherry, Beyond the Frame, Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain 1850-1900, London and New York, 2012, pp. 37-47, illustrated
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Charlotte Yeldham, The British Art Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, 2019/2020, pp. 88-97