Live Auction 12165American Art
John Leslie Breck (1860-1899)
Lot 93

John Leslie Breck (1860-1899)

Surf at Gloucester

Closed22 November 2016

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USD 187,500

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John Leslie Breck (1860-1899)
Surf at Gloucester
signed 'J.L. Breck' (lower left)
oil on canvas
24 ½ x 44 ¼ in. (62.2 x 112.4 cm.)
Painted in 1890.

Henry L. Mason, by 1900.
Private collection, Portland, Oregon.
Estate of the above.
Private collection, Portland, Oregon, acquired from the above.
Jeffrey Brown, Lincoln, Massachusetts, and Franklin Riehlman, New York, acquired from the above.
Private collection, Connecticut.
Adelson Galleries, New York.
Questroyal Fine Art, New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

We would like to thank Jeffrey Brown for his assistance with cataloguing this work.

On April 23, 1890, the Boston Evening Transcript reported that John Leslie Breck had returned to America from France. In preparing for his first solo exhibition at the St. Botolph Club in Boston at the end of that year, the artist painted the present work, Surf at Gloucester, along with another 28 x 48 in. pendant work of a similar sea and rocks scene by moonlight (Unlocated).