SOPHIE ANDERSON (BRITISH, 1823-1903)

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13.07.2023 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 998877
Lot 87 | SOPHIE ANDERSON (BRITISH, 1823-1903)
SOPHIE ANDERSON (BRITISH, 1823-1903)

Scandal in the harem

oil on canvas

35 5/8 x 30 1/2 in. (90.5 x 77.5 cm.)

Painted in 1877.





Provenance

with French Gallery, London, 1877.

Gifted to the grandmother of the present owners, Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1960,

and by descent to the present owners.



Literature

The Graphic, 13 January 1877, p. 30, illustrated (Frontispiece).

K. Nichols, In Depth: Sophie Anderson, a cosmopolitan Victorian Artist in the Midlands in ‘Midlands Art Papers’, Birmingham, 2018, pp. 12, 23, 27, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, The French Gallery Pall Mall, (probably) January 1877.

Paris, Salon, Palais des Champs-Élysées, May 1877, no 28.

Birmingham, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, September 1877, no 35. (sold for £315).
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