Old Masters, British & European Paintings - 8th September 2020
Lot 505
Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (1829-1904) Portrait of Lewis Flower (1856-1902)
Estimate £1,500 - £2,500
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Description
Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (1829-1904)
Portrait of Lewis Flower (1856-1902), bust-length
Signed, titled and dated 1886
Coloured chalks and pencil on green paper
68 x 50.5cm; 26¾ x 19¾in
Provenance:
Lewis Flower;
And by descent
Literature:
Betty Elzea, Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné (Suffolk, Antique Collectors' Club, 2001), p.273, no. 4.52
Exhibited:
Brighton, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery; Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, Frederick Sandys 1829-1904, 1974, no.123c
Lewis Flower was the brother of Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea (1843-1907), who probably once owned lot 511. Cyril also sat for Frederick Sandys in 1872.