Live Auction 7728Victorian and British Impressionist Pictures including Drawings and Watercolours
Christie’s roundel
Lot 27 Property from the estate of Joan Griffith (nee Seddon)

Paul Fordyce Maitland (1863-1909)

Kensington Palace, seen through the trees

Closed4 June 2009

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GBP 15,000

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Paul Fordyce Maitland (1863-1909)
Kensington Palace, seen through the trees
signed 'P. Maitland/'98'
oil on canvas
17 x 22¼ in. (43.2 x 56.5 cm.)

with James Connell & Son, Glasgow.
with Ernest Brown & Phillips, Ltd., The Leicester Galleries, London.
with The Lord Blackford by 1948 (according to a label on the reverse). with The Fine Art Society Ltd, London, 1974, No. 5909.

Specialist note

Maitland was born in Chelsea and exhibited with the 'London Impressionists' at the Goupil Gallery in 1889, in an attempt to show what Sickert described as 'the magic and poetry' of city life. His paintings betray the influence of Whistler, in both composition and handling.