Live Auction 13731Brian Sewell - Critic & Collector
Keeley Halswelle, R.A. (Richmond, Surrey 1832-1891 Paris)
Lot 163

Keeley Halswelle, R.A. (Richmond, Surrey 1832-1891 Paris)

On the Grand Canal, Venice

Closed27 September 2016

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GBP 5,000

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Keeley Halswelle, R.A. (Richmond, Surrey 1832-1891 Paris)
On the Grand Canal, Venice
signed, inscribed and numbered 'No. 36 On the grand canal VENICE Keeley Halswelle ARSA/39 Old Bond St Piccadilly' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
27 x 40 ½ in. (68.5 x 102.9 cm.)

John Heugh; Christie's, London, 10 May 1878, lot 199 (100 gns to Agnew).

Specialist note

Following an extended residence in the city, Halswelle held an exhibition in 1875 entitled Twelve Months in Venice, in which the present painting may have been included. He described his working methods to the Art Journal critic: 'I determined to employ my time in the gondola in endeavouring to delineate under a summer aspect some of those beautiful and unique views so familiar to all who have had the happiness of visiting this wonderful city of the sea...now they are gathered together, they will be found to embrace most of the well-known points on the Grand Canal and Lagoons' (Art Journal, 1875, p. 16).