ID 998877
Lot 87 | SOPHIE ANDERSON (BRITISH, 1823-1903)
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
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).
| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
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| Art style: | Orientalism |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
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| Art style: | Orientalism |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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