Old Masters, British & European Paintings - Day 1 - 1st March 2022
Lot 263
Helen Allingham RWS (1848-1926)
Estimate £8,000 - £12,000 | Hammer £7000
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Description
Helen Allingham RWS (1848-1926)
The Cottage Door
Signed H. Allingham (lower right)
Watercolour with scratching out
27.8 x 23cm; 11 x 9in
Provenance:
Possibly with Thos. Agnew & Sons, Manchester;
Possibly Sir George Johnson MD;
Christie's, London, 20 October 1981, lot 183;
Richard Hagen Gallery , Broadway by 1982, where purchased by the present private collector, 1983
Literature:
Ina Taylor, Helen Allingham's England: An Idyllic View of Rural Life (Webb & Bower Ltd, 1990), p.107
Exhibited:
Possibly, London, St. Jude's School House, 1883, no.155 (as 'Feeding Rabbits', lent by Sir George Johnson MD)
We are grateful to Annabel Watts for her assistance cataloguing the present work.