Live Auction 12309Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art, Maritime Art, Sporting & Wildlife Art
Briton Riviere, R.A. (1840-1920)
Lot 128

Briton Riviere, R.A. (1840-1920)

A Cavatina

Closed7 July 2016

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GBP 9,375

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Briton Riviere, R.A. (1840-1920)
A Cavatina
dated '1888' (centre right) and signed and inscribed 'A Cavatina/Briton Riviere RA/82 Finchley Road/NW' (on a label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
43 ½ x 33 ½ in. (110.5 x 85 cm.)

By descent in the family of the artist to the present owner.

Specialist note

This painting depicts the artist's daughter, Millicent Alice (b. 1871), playing her violin. Millicent also appears in Sympathy painted ten years earlier (circa 1878, Tate Britain).