Live Auction 14311Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art, Maritime Art, Sporting & Wildlife Art
Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. (1831-1923)
Lot 32

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

Evening Glow

Closed22 March 2017

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GBP 27,500

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Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. (1831-1923)
Evening Glow
signed and dated 'B.W. LEADER. 1895.' (lower left) and further signed, inscribed and numbered 'No 1 Evening Glow. B.W. Leader' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
50 ½ x 84 ½ in. (128.3 x 214.6 cm.)
In the original frame.

with M. Newman, London.
with Agnew's, London.
Mrs Helen Colman, by whom given to
Frederick Gordon D. Colman, on his marriage on 2 August 1911.

Specialist note

According to Lewis (loc. cit.) this painting was executed in Worcestershire, but there are also strong similarities in the composition with Burrows Cross, Surrey (1920), which shows a comparable group of majestic Scots pine trees, glowing in the evening sunlight, sitting high above the thickly wooded Winterfold ridge below. Leader and his family moved to Burrows Cross House, a large mansion designed by the architect Norman Shaw, near Guildford in 1889.