Live Auction 8433Victorian & British Impressionist Art
Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. (1831-1923)
Lot 112

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

The last gleam

Closed13 March 2013

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GBP 8,750

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Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. (1831-1923)
The last gleam
signed and dated 'B.W.LEADER.1879' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'no.2 The Last Gleam B.W.Leader' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
38 x 60 in. (96.5 x 152.4 cm.)

Sold by the artist to W.W. Boulton Esq., 1879 for 350.00.
with Arthur Tooth, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 23 June 1971, Lot 38.
with M. Newman, London, 1971.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 July 1974, lot 213.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1981, lot 71.
with Frost & Reed, London, 1982.

Specialist note

Original title given by Leader in 1879 was 'The Evening Hour'.