FRANCIS DANBY, A.R.A. (WEXFORD, IRELAND, 1793-1861 WEXMOUTH, DEVON)

Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
Auction dateClassic
23.05.2024 14:00UTC -04:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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USA, New York
ID 1196520
Lot 36 | FRANCIS DANBY, A.R.A. (WEXFORD, IRELAND, 1793-1861 WEXMOUTH, DEVON)
FRANCIS DANBY, A.R.A. (WEXFORD, IRELAND, 1793-1861 WEXMOUTH, DEVON)

Winter - Sunset: A Slide

signed, dated and inscribed 'F DANBY. 1850. RA' (lower left)

oil on canvas

28 x 42 in. (71.1 x 106.7 cm.)





Provenance

The artist.

Elizabeth Steen Gibbons (d. 1889), London, commissioned by her late husband, acquired directly from the above in 1851, until at least 5 May 1883.

Thomas Edwal Samson (1898-1979), Newport, Wales, by 9 June 1951.

His sale; Christie's, London, 3 July 1964, lot 80.

with Leggatt Brothers, London, acquired at the above sale.

Private collection, United Kingdom.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 July 1993, lot 93.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

W. G. Strickland, Dictionary of Irish Artists, Shannon, 1913, vol. 1, p. 258.

The Connoisseur, vol. 160, no. 644, New York, October 1965, p. XIII, illustrated.

E. Adams, Francis Danby: Varieties of Poetic Landscape, New Haven, 1973, pp. 120, 127-128, 183, no. 68, fig. 87, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1851, no. 335.

Newport, Wales, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Samson Collection of English Masters, 9-30 June 1951, no. 10, as Golden Moments of Sunset.
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