Live Auction 14232Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist Art
Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922)
Lot 61

Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922)

The request

Closed11 July 2017

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GBP 22,500

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Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922)
The request
signed with initials and dated 'E B L/92' (lower right) and further signed, inscribed and numbered '2/The Request/E Blair Leighton/7 Priory Road/Bedford Park. W.' (on an exhibition label attached to the reverse)
oil on panel
14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4 cm.)

Private Collection.
Maintie Mason, London, and by descent.
R. Steven Lawson, Virginia, by 1974, from whom acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

We are grateful to Kara Lysandra Ross for her assistance in preparing the catalogue entry for this picture, which will be included in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Edmund Blair Leighton.