Sydney Laurence (1865-1940)
Sailing Off Gloucester Coast
signed and dated 'Sydney Laurence-/Gloucester-1888' (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
4½ x 7½ in. (11.4 x 19.1 cm.)
Sydney Laurence (1865-1940)
Sailing Off Gloucester Coast
signed and dated 'Sydney Laurence-/Gloucester-1888' (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
4½ x 7½ in. (11.4 x 19.1 cm.)
Christie's, New York, 26 September 1986, lot 100.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
J. Hardin and V.A. Leeds, In the American Spirit: Realism and Impressionism from the Lawrence Collection, exhibition catalogue, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1999, pp. 50, 84, no. 22, illustrated.
Winter Park, Florida, Rollins College, Cornell Fine Arts Center, Western and Wildlife: Selections from the Samuel B. and Marion Lawrence Collection, November 23, 1987-January 24, 1988.
St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, In the American Spirit: Realism and Impressionism from the Lawrence Collection, March 21-June 13, 1999, no. 22.
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