Old Masters, British & European Paintings - 6th March 2024
Lot 260
Edwin Longsden Long RA (1820-1891)
Estimate £3,000 - £5,000 | Hammer £6300
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Description
Edwin Longsden Long RA (1820-1891)
Study for Jephthah's Vow: In the Wilderness
Oil on canvas, 1885
54 x 36cm; 21¼ x 14¼in
Provenance:
Sotheby's, London, 29 January 1974;
Sotheby's, Belgravia, Victorian Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours, 27 July 1976, lot 84;
Acquired from the above by the previous private collector;
On long term loan to The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth;
By family descent to the present owner, 2004
Literature:
Mark Bills, Edwin Longsden Long RA (London, 1988), p.151, no.214.1 (illustrated)
The present work is an oil study for the second work in Edwin Long's Jephthah's Vow trilogy, in the collection of the Russell-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth, where this work was also previously on long-term loan.