WILLIAM JOHN LEECH, R.H.A. (1881-1968)

Lot 46
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Lot 46 | WILLIAM JOHN LEECH, R.H.A. (1881-1968)
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£ 20 000 – 30 000
WILLIAM JOHN LEECH, R.H.A. (1881-1968)
Glion
signed 'Leech' (lower left), signed again and inscribed 'Glion./W.J. Leech. R.H.A.' (on the artist's label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
24 x 19 ¾ in. (61 x 50.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1910.




Provenance

Purchased by Sir Robert Park Lyle at the 1912 exhibition.
Mrs Sylvia Bride.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 June 1984, lot 107, where acquired for the present collection.



Literature

A. Denson, W.J. Leech R.H.A. II: His Life Work, Kendal, 1969, n.p., no. 20.



Exhibited

London, Goupil Gallery, 1912.
London, Barbican Art Gallery, Impressionism in Britain, January - May 1995, no. 121.
Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, William John Leech: An Irish Painter Abroad, October - December 1996, p. 141, no. 26, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Quimper, Musée des Beaux Arts, January - March 1997; and Belfast, Ulster Museum, March - June 1997.
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