FEBRUARY ANTIQUE & ART AUCTION Tuesday, 27 February 2018 - 9:00 AM start

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Edmund Blair Leighton (UK 1853-1922) Untitled (Mortality and Remembrance)

Realised: $2,500 plus premium

Lot Details

oil on board, initialled lower right, inscribed Langham Sketch lower left. 180 x 115. Identified as a 'Langham Sketch' referencing the 'Artists's Society for the study of historical, poetical and rustic figures', founded in London in 1830. The Society's 'Sketching Club', known as 'The Langham', was founded in 1838. Considered to be one of the oldest sketching clubs in existence, it operates today as 'The Artist's Society and the Langham Sketching Club'. It shares the Chelsea premises of the 'London Sketch Club'. Langham sketches had to be executed within an allocated time of two hours, which was rigorously enforced. Provenance: Sir Robert Anderson (1866-1942), by bequest and descent to our vendor. Sir Robert was the benefactor who gifted the Anderson House and Park to the City of Invercargill to become the Invercargill Public Art Gallery. c.f. http://www.invercargillpublicartgallery.nz/the-house/ See other images