JAMES NORTHCOTE, R.A. (PLYMOUTH 1746-1831 LONDON)
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ID 1513687
Lot 171 | JAMES NORTHCOTE, R.A. (PLYMOUTH 1746-1831 LONDON)
Valeur estimée
10000GBP £ 10 000 – 15 000
Alexander I (1777-1825), Emperor of Russia, reviving a man drowned in the River Wilna, Poland
oil on canvas
96 ¾ x 68 ½ in. (248.5 x 173 cm.)
Provenance
The artist; his sale (†), Edward Foster, on the premises, 8 Argyll Place, Regent Street, London, 4 July 1836 (=1st day), lot 14 (12 gns. to Robinson).
Mrs Charles John Hare, by whom presented to,
The Royal Society of Medicine, London.
Literature
'Society of British Artists', The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, XV, 1 May 1825, pp. 205-206.
S. Gwynn, Memorials of an Eighteenth Century Painter (James Northcote), London, 1898, pp. 261, 262 and 285, no. 626.
G. Winter, 'Bringing the Dead Back to Life: Two Centuries of the Royal Humane Society', Country Life, CLV, no. 4015, 13 June 1974, p. 1578.
A. Wilding-Jones, 'Letters: Humane Act of an Emperor', Country Life, CLVI, no. 4022, 1 August 1974, p. 304, illustrated.
J. Johnson, ed., Works exhibited at The Royal Society of British Artists, 1824-1893, Woodbridge, 1975, I, p. 345.
A. Sakula, Royal Society of Medicine, London: Portraits, Paintings and Sculptures, London, 1988, pp. 4-5, illustrated in colour.
J. Simon, 'The Account Book of James Northcote', The Walpole Society, LVIII, 1995-1996, pp. 104-105, no. 660, under pictures painted in 1820.
N.K. Ahuja, 'Looking Behind the Veil', The New York Review of Books, LXXII, no. 17, 6 November 2025, illustrated in colour.
Exhibited
London, Society of British Artists, 1825, no. 53.
| Artiste: | James Northcote (1746 - 1831) |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, Peintures |
| Artiste: | James Northcote (1746 - 1831) |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, Peintures |
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