Live Auction 20038An Aesthetic Odyssey: The Peter Rose and Albert Gallichan Collection
ROBERT ANNING BELL, R.A. (1863-1933)
Lot 278

ROBERT ANNING BELL, R.A. (1863-1933)

The Marriage at Cana

Closed30 September 2021

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GBP 6,875

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ROBERT ANNING BELL, R.A. (1863-1933)
The Marriage at Cana
signed and dated 'R. An. Bell/ 1911' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed '[T]he Marriage/ at Cana./ R. An. Bell' (on a label on the reverse of the frame)
termpera on silk wrapped around a panel
15 ½ x 11 in. (39.4 x 28 cm.)

with Abbott & Holder, London, October 1975, where purchased for the present collection.

Specialist note


This is one of the illustrations that Bell made for Alice Meynell’s Mary, the Mother of Jesus, 1912. It can be compared with Bell’s Diploma work The Women going to the Sepulchre, dated 1912, which shares a similar colour scheme. The influence of Masaccio and Florentine frescoes is apparent.