Live Auction 20038An Aesthetic Odyssey: The Peter Rose and Albert Gallichan Collection
GEORGE PRICE BOYCE, R.W.S. (1826-1897)
Lot 194

GEORGE PRICE BOYCE, R.W.S. (1826-1897)

The Sphinx near Giza in morning light

Closed30 September 2021

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GEORGE PRICE BOYCE, R.W.S. (1826-1897)
The Sphinx near Giza in morning light
signed and dated 'G.P. Boyce Jany. 1862' (lower right) and further signed, inscribed and dated 'The Sphynx near Gizeh - in morning light/ G Boyce- Jany 1862-' (on the reverse) and further inscribed as title and 'Watercolour study made/ on the spot in January 1862' (on a label on the backboard)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and with scratching out on paper
8 ¾ x 10 ¼ in. (22.3 x 26 cm.)

Probably the artist's sale; Christie's, London, 1 July 1897, lot 80 (7 gns to Charrington), and by descent to
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 1 November 1990, lot 162.

Specialist note


Boyce, best known for his bucolic views of Oxfordshire, travelled to Egypt in the winter of 1861-2 with the Swedish artist Egron Sillif Lundgren (1815-1875) and the topographical painter Frank Dillon (1823-1909). They spent several months living and working in Giza, where Boyce executed watercolours of temples, ruins, and views of the Nile.