European & British Paintings Day Auction

European & British Paintings Day Auction

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Property of a Distinguished Collector

Herbert James Draper

Evening Calm

Auction Closed

July 4, 02:11 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Distinguished Collector


Herbert James Draper

British

1863 - 1920

Evening Calm


signed Herbert Draper lower right

oil on canvas

Unframed: 62.5 by 102cm., 24½ by 40in.

Framed: 87 by 128cm., 34¼ by 50½in.

Purchased from the artist by Mr Duncan Sinclair Smith of St. Clair Villa, Paisley with whom it remained until his death in 1909, probably thence to his daughter Miss Catherine Smith of Whiteland, Kilmacolm

Sale: Clars Auction Gallery, San Francisco, 20 February 2022, lot 6214

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

The Scotsman, 4 February 1902, p. 5

Paisley & Renfrewshire Gazette, 8 February 1902, p. 5

Glasgow Citizen, 12 February 1902

Aberdeen Press and Journal, 16 October 1902, p. 5

Simon Toll, Herbert Draper 1863-1920 - A Life Study, 2003, Woodbridge, 2003, p. 174, note 10

Glasgow, Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, 1902, no. 70