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285 - WILLIAM POWELL FRITH (BRITISH 1819-1909)STERNE'S MARIAOil on canvasSigned and dated '1868' (lower left)51 x 35.5cm (20 x 13¾in.)Provenance:Purchased from the artist by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 13 July 1868From whom purchased by Henry Bruen MP, 28 September 1868Sale, Christie’s, London, Fine Victorian Pictures, 1 November 1985, lot 211Christopher Wood Gallery, London, November 1986Sale, Sotheby's, London, Victorian Paintings, 16 March 1988, lot 144 (unsold)Sale, Christie’s, South Kensington, English and Victorian Pictures, Watercolours and Drawings, 11 April 1989, lot 162Literature:W. P. Frith, My Autobiography and Reminiscences, in two volumes, Bentley & Son, London, 1887, volume II, pp.1-4M. Bills and V. Knight (eds), William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age, New Haven and London, 2006, p.132, illus.This is a smaller one of three paintings that depicted Sterne’s Maria, in this case where the troublesome goat is replaced by a dog.
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WILLIAM POWELL FRITH (BRITISH 1819-1909)STERNE'S MARIAOil on canvasSigned and dated '1868' (lower left)51 x 35.5cm (20 x 13¾in.)Provenance:Purchased from the artist by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 13 July 1868From whom purchased by Henry Bruen MP, 28 September 1868Sale, Christie’s, London, Fine Victorian Pictures, 1 November 1985, lot 211Christopher Wood Gallery, London, November 1986Sale, Sotheby's, London, Victorian Paintings, 16 March 1988, lot 144 (unsold)Sale, Christie’s, South Kensington, English and Victorian Pictures, Watercolours and Drawings, 11 April 1989, lot 162Literature:W. P. Frith, My Autobiography and Reminiscences, in two volumes, Bentley & Son, London, 1887, volume II, pp.1-4M. Bills and V. Knight (eds), William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age, New Haven and London, 2006, p.132, illus.This is a smaller one of three paintings that depicted Sterne’s Maria, in this case where the troublesome goat is replaced by a dog.
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