Catalogue entry
Frederick Sandys 1829-1904
T03884 Oriana1861
Oil on panel 251 x 190 (9 7/8 x 7 1/2)
Inscribed 'AFS 1861' (initials in monogram) b.r. Also inscribed, presumably by the artist, on labels formerly on back and now separately preserved: 'N° <...> 1 | Oriana | Painted by Frederick Sandys | Thorpe next Norwich | Norfolk' and 'Or[iana] n° 1.'
Purchased (Grant-in-Aid) with assistance from the Abbott Fund 1984
Prov: Presumably sold by the artist to William Houghton Clabburn, Thorpe, Norwich 1861 (see below), for whose executors sold Spelman, Norwich 25 Sept. 1889 (148); ...; anon, sale, Christie's 20 Nov. 1897 (46) £50 bt Charles Fairfax Murray; offered for sale by him to Samuel Bancroft Jr 1906 but not bt; ...; Lord Lawrence of Kingsgate, sold Christie's 15 March 1935 (144) £65.2s. bt MeKelvie; ...; anon. sale, Christie's 18 Nov. 1949 (110) £84 bt Leggatt, from whom bt by Lt-Col. R.C. Allhusen Dec. 1949 and sold Sotheby's 19 June 1984 (26, repr. in col… (read more)
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