SIR LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA, O.M., R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1836-1912)

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Lot 27 | SIR LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA, O.M., R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1836-1912)
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£ 70 000 – 100 000
SIR LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA, O.M., R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1836-1912)

A Solicitation

signed and numbered 'L.Alma Tadema op CLXXXIX-' (lower centre)

pencil and watercolour on paper

9 x 17 3/4 in. (22.9 x 45.1 cm.)

Executed in 1878.





Provenance

with Ernest Gambart & Co., Paris and London, commissioned from the artist, until at least 1889.

Angus Holden, 1st Baron Holden; Christie's, London, 18 July 1913, lot 1, as Pleading (200 gns to Agnew).

with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, until February 1916.

A. Barnett, and by descent to

Arthur R. Larkin.

Private Collection, UK.

Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 1 March 2017, lot 52, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

C. Vosmaer, Onze Hedendaagsche Schilders: Lourens Alma Tadema, 's-Gravenhage, circa 1885, p. 10.

R. Dircks, Sir L. Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A., London, 1910, p. 30.

C. Cuypers, 'The Question by Lourens Alma Tadema,' Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 27, 's-Gravenhage, 1976, pp. 73-90.

R. Borger, Drei Klassizisten: Alma Tadema, Ebers, Vosmaer, Leiden, 1978, p. 11, no. 189.

V. Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 1990, p. 191, under no. 208 and p. 199, under no. 226.

Letter from Vivien Knight, curator of Libraries and Art Galleries Guildhall Art Gallery, London to Robin Garton, 6 August 1992.



Exhibited

Brussels, Société Royale Belge des Aquarellistes, 1879, no. 208, as Pleading.

The Hague, Hollandsche Teeken-Maatschappij, Tentoonstelling de Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten, 1879, no. 1, as Het pleiten.

Rome, Associazione degli acquarellisti in Roma, Esposizione annuale del MDCCCLXXXIII aperta al pubblico, 15 March - 22 April 1883.

Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1889, no. 174, as Le suppliant.

London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 46th Annual Exhibition of Selected Watercolour Drawings, 1914, no. 136.

London, Leighton House Museum, Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, 7 July - 29 October 2017, no. 45.



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