FRANCIS AUGUSTUS SILVA (1835-1886)

Lot 430
23.01.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 120 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1540451
Lot 430 | FRANCIS AUGUSTUS SILVA (1835-1886)
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
FRANCIS AUGUSTUS SILVA (1835-1886)
Coastal Sunset
signed and dated 'F.A. Silva. 74' (lower right)
oil on canvas
14 x 26 in. (35.6 x 66 cm.)
Painted in 1874.




Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, 25 May 1988, lot 21.
Alexander Gallery, New York.
Sotheby's, New York, 30 November 1989, lot 17.
(Probably) Acquired by the present owner from the above.



Literature

D.C. Miller, ed., American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature, New Haven, Connecticut, 1993, pp. 186-87, fig. 9.2, illustrated (as Seascape at Sunset).



Exhibited

M.D. Mitchell, J. Wilmerding, Francis A. Silva (1835-1886): In His Own Light, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2002, pp. 86, 129, pl. 20, illustrated.
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