Lot 24: Arthur Melville, ARSA RSW ARS (British, 1855-1904) A French Washing 27.5 x 44.5 cm. (10 13/16 x 17 1/2 in.)

A French Washing
signed and dated 'Arthur Melville 1886' (lower left)
watercolour with white heightening
27.5 x 44.5 cm. (10 13/16 x 17 1/2 in.)

PROVENANCE:
William Christie, Whitehouse Terrace, Edinburgh
With the Fine Art Society, London, May 1970

EXHIBITED:
Memorial Exhibition, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, 1906, no. 121

LITERATURE:
Mackay, AE, Arthur Melville, Scottish Impressionist, Leigh on Sea, 1951, p 133. Mackay notes, probably correctly, that this picture may have been post dated.