Sotheby's: 19th Century European Art including Sporting Paintings: Lot 114
GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS
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BRITISH, 1863-1919
BLANCHE
measurements
27 by 19 3/4 in.
alternate measurements
68.6 by 50.1 cm
oil on canvas
PROVENANCE
Charles Hilditch Rickards, Esq (and sold: Christie's, London, April 2, 1887, lot 52)
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London
W.G. Rawlinson, Esq., by 1904
Mr. Carver, Bitteswell, Leicestershire
The Misses Belcher, Bitteswell, Leicestershire
Sale: Sotheby's, London, June 20, 1989, lot 40, illustrated
EXHIBITED
London, Royal Academy, 1875, no. 266
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Collection of the Works of G.F. Watts, 1881-2, no.128
Manchester, Watts Memorial Exhibition, 1905, no. 102
LITERATURE
Mrs. M.S. Watts, Catalogue of the Works of G.F. Watts, vol. I, p. 20, "This is the first portrait Mr. Watts painted of little Blanche Clostoum, who is seated in an arm chair, and wears red stockings."
NOTE
Painted circa 1875.
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