Live Auction 7500Victorian & British Impressionist Art
Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. (1831-1923)
Lot 146

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

Parting Day, 'The weary sun has made a golden set, And, by the bright track of the fiery car, Gives token of a goodly day tomorrow'.

Closed15 November 2012

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Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. (1831-1923)
Parting Day, 'The weary sun has made a golden set, And, by the bright track of the fiery car, Gives token of a goodly day tomorrow'.
signed and dated 'B.W. LEADER.1883' (lower right) and further
signed and inscribed 'Parting Day. B.W. Leader' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
26 x 42 in. (66 x 106.7 cm.)

Sold to Agnew's by the artist in March 1883, £250.00.
With G. Palmer M.P. from July 1883.
Gooden & Fox; Christie's, London, 16 July 1948, Lot 149.

Specialist note

Painted in the year that the artist became an Associate of the Royal Academy, this is a finished study of his 1883 Royal Academy Exhibit, no.98.