Live Auction 7540A House on the Wiltshire Downs
Dame Laura Knight, R.A., R.W.S. (1877-1970)
Lot 123

Dame Laura Knight, R.A., R.W.S. (1877-1970)

Portrait of Master John Walter Wolseley (b. 1938)

Closed6 March 2008

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GBP 5,000

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Dame Laura Knight, R.A., R.W.S. (1877-1970)
Portrait of Master John Walter Wolseley (b. 1938)
Signed 'Laura Knight' (lower left) and inscribed 'MORS EST VITA MIHI' (on the Wolseley coat-of-arms, upper right)
oil on canvas
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm.)

John Walter Wolseley, Nettlecombe, Somerset.
By whom sold to Carlton Hobbs.

Specialist note

The sitter, John Walter Wolseley, was born in Somerset in 1938. An artist who settled in Australia in 1976, he has since travelled the continent extensively, painting the landscape and chronicling both its physical evolution and that of those who dwell within it.