Live Auction 8020Victorian & British Impressionist Art
Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. (1831-1923)
Lot 68

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

The Wetterhorn from above Rosenlaui

Closed15 December 2011

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GBP 22,500

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Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. (1831-1923)
The Wetterhorn from above Rosenlaui
signed and dated 'B.W.LEADER.1875' (lower left)
oil on canvas
72 x 60 in. (182.9 x 152.4 cm.)

Painted for John Derby Allcroft, M.P.
Lady Magnus-Allcroft (+); Sotheby's, Stokesay Court, Shropshire, 29 September 1994, lot 577.

Specialist note

Leader is known to have made two visits to Switzerland: in 1872, and again in 1876 when he was on honeymoon with his wife, Mary Eastlake, great niece of the artist Charles Lock Eastlake, President of the Royal Academy from 1850 to 1865. The present lot is described in the 1875 Art Journal as 'wonderfully faithful to fact, and marvellously beautiful in itself, with its lichen-covered tree-trunks [...] and its stately pines clothing the mountain'.