European & British Paintings Day Auction
European & British Paintings Day Auction
Property from the Estate of Martin R. Davies, Bristol
Edward Lear
"And I will See, Before I Die, The Palms and Temples of the South"
Auction Closed
July 4, 02:11 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Martin R. Davies, Bristol
Edward Lear
British
1812 - 1888
"And I will See, Before I Die, The Palms and Temples of the South"
signed with initials EL lower right
oil on canvas
Unframed: 48.5 by 75.5cm., 19 by 29¾in.
Framed: 63 by 89.8cm., 24¾ by 35¼in.
Commissioned in 1856 by Chichester Fortesque and thence by descent to Charles Towneley Strachey, Lord O'Hagan M.E.P. (his sale: Sotheby's, London, 3 November 1993, lot 21)
Purchased from the above by Martin R. Davies, Bristol
Lady Strachey (ed.), Letters of Edward Lear, London, 1907, p. 35
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