Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys

Portrait of Mr James Brand

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Auction Closed

July 4, 02:11 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a British Private Collection

Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys

British

1832 – 1904

Portrait of Mr James Brand

signed and dated F Sandys. 1880 upper right; inscribed within a drawn cartouche James Brand upper left and inscribed No 1 - / James Brand. Esqr / chalk drawing - / by / Fredk Sandys - / Spenser St - / Victoria St - / Westminster on an old label attached to the backboard

pencil with coloured chalks on brown paper

Unframed: 126 by 83cm., 49½ by 32¾in.

Framed: 157.5 by 115.5cm., 62 by 45½in.

Commissioned by the sitter, circa 1879

Bequeathed to his sister Mrs Grace Brand Wilson

Bequeathed to her daughter Mrs Grizel (Wilson) Richmond until her death, circa 1981

Thence by descent

Private collection

Betty Elzea, Frederick Sandys 1829-1904 A Catalogue Raisonné, Woodbridge, 2001, p. 260, cat. no. 4.1, p. 72, plate 54, illustrated in colour

Betty Elzea, A Singular Man - A Documented Life on an Artist, Frederick Sandys: 1829-1904, Norwich, 2023, pp. 186-187, illustrated in colour

London, Royal Academy, 1880, no. 1233

Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Frederick Sandys and the Pre-Raphaelites, 2001-2002

James Brand (1832-1893) was the elder son of the China and East India merchant James Brand (1798-1860) and Jane Wilson Brand whose oil portrait is included in this sale. Sandys dressed Brand as a sportsman in a tweed suit and holding a Tam-o-Shanter to denote his Scottish heritage and behind him he drew a superb study of dried thistles for the same reason. Sandys received payments of £40 and £35 in April and May 1880 for this portrait.