Live Auction 10644Christie's Interiors
Circle of Balthasar Beschey (1708-1776)
Lot 485 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MISS BARBARA JUDD (LOTS 485 - 492)

Circle of Balthasar Beschey (1708-1776)

The Samaritan woman at the well

Closed15 April 2015

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GBP 4,750

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Circle of Balthasar Beschey (1708-1776)
The Samaritan woman at the well
oil on canvas
8 ½ x 9 ¼ in. (21.5 x 23.4 cm.)

Lionel Tollemache, 8th Earl of Dysart (1794-1878), Ham House, Surrey, by 1844, and by descent to,
William John Manners Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart, DL (1895-1935), by whom bequeathed with the house in 1935 to his second cousin,
Sir Lyonel Tollemache, 4th Bt. (1854-1952), and by descent to his son,
Sir Lyonel (Boy) Tollemache 5th Bt. (1886-1969), by whom gifted to Barbara Judd (1926-2013).

Specialist note

When Miss Judd was a young girl, her uncle Boy quizzed her about the subject of the present lot, as she had just learnt the story at Sunday School that day she answered correctly. He gifted the painting to her as a reward.