Live Auction 15506Victorian Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art
Henry Ryland, R.W.S. (1856-1924)
Lot 61

Henry Ryland, R.W.S. (1856-1924)

A Wonder Book of Ancient Greece

Closed11 July 2018

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Henry Ryland, R.W.S. (1856-1924)
A Wonder Book of Ancient Greece
signed 'HENRY RYLAND' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour on paper
15 3/8 x 22 ¼ in. (39 x 56.5 cm.)

with Maas Gallery, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 June 1984, lot 288.

Specialist note

The present watercolour is a particularly enchanting example of Ryland's style in which he combined the poeticism of the Pre-Raphaelites with the sculptural dynamism of the Neo-classicists. He exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy, the New Gallery and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colour, which firmly established his position at the forefront of the group of Neo-classical painters, working in watercolour.