Live Auction 11148Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978)
Lot 66

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978)

Portrait of Mrs Lebus

Closed16 June 2015

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GBP 10,000

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Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978)
Portrait of Mrs Lebus
signed 'BROCKHURST' (lower left)
oil on gesso
34 x 28 7/8 in. (86.3 x 73.3 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Bonham's, Knightsbridge, 22 February 2005, lot 118, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

Brockhurst often painted on a white gesso ground to improve luminosity, preferring the patented Crossland Flexibile Gesso which comprised gesso and muslin loosely laid over a blind stretcher.