AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD EGG, R.A. (BRITISH, 1816-1863)

Lot 45
13.07.2023 00:00UTC +00:00
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£ 10 000
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ID 998932
Lot 45 | AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD EGG, R.A. (BRITISH, 1816-1863)
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£ 10 000 – 15 000
AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD EGG, R.A. (BRITISH, 1816-1863)

Portrait of William Powell Frith

signed, inscribed and dated 'I give this picture to my daughter/ ?. Oppenheim/ June 9th 1901/ W.P. Frith' (on the reverse)

oil on panel, painted oval

12 x 9 7/8 in. (30.5 x 25 cm.)





Provenance

The artist, by whom gifted to his daughter Isabelle Oppenheim, 9th June 1901, and by descent to the present owner.



Literature

F. O'Donoghue, Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum 1908–22, London, 1908, II, p. 261, no. 3.

C. Wood, William Powell Frith, London, 2006, p. 17, illustrated.

M. Bills and V. Knight (ed.), William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 1, no, 1, illustrated, as by William Powell Frith.



Exhibited

London, Guildhall Art Gallery; and Harrogate, Mercer Art Gallery, William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age, November 2006 - July 2007, no. 7, as by Augustus Egg, Portrait of the Artist.
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