Live Auction 7437Victorian and Traditonalist Pictures
Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. (1831-1923)
Lot 94

Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. (1831-1923)

Stratford-on-Avon

Closed15 November 2007

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GBP 11,875

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Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. (1831-1923)
Stratford-on-Avon
signed and dated 'B.W.LEADER. 1877.' (lower left) and further inscribed 'Church and River Stratford on Avon' (on the reverse)
oil on board
16 x 24 in. (40.6 x 61 cm.)

Sold by the artist to Clark, December 1877 (£70).
Myles Ariel Clark; Christie's London, 30 April 1906, lot 27 (£47.5s to Mitchell).
with M. Newman Ltd, London, 1962.
with Harrods, London, 1962.
G. Roberts.
with Gavin Graham Gallery, London.
with A. Baird-Carter, London.

Specialist note

Country churches were always favourite subjects of Leader's; especially those in the villages of his birth county, Worcestershire. In this landscape, the early thirteenth-century Holy Trinity Parish Church at Stratford is viewed across the River Avon. It is the church where William Shakespeare was baptised and is buried. There is a larger, more finished version of this scene which Leader has dated 1878.

We are grateful to Ruth Wood for her help in preparing this catalogue entry. Mrs Wood is working on a catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Benjamin Williams Leader.