Live Auction 5222Victorian & British Impressionist Art
Attributed to Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas (1857-1937)
Lot 74

Attributed to Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas (1857-1937)

The new dress

Closed12 March 2014

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GBP 12,500

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Attributed to Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas (1857-1937)
The new dress
signed with initials and dated 'A.P.W. 1913' (lower right)
oil on canvas, unframed
50 x 30 in. (127 x 76.2 cm.)

Specialist note

It has been suggested that this work is by Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas, a biologist who emigrated to New Zealand in 1883 to take up the professorship of natural sciences at the university college of Auckland. He held a position of some social standing and took a keen interest in the arts, being a member of the Auckland Society of Arts and the Auckland Institute and Museum.