Lot 7: Arthur Melville, R.W.S., A.R.S.A., R.S.W. (1855-1904)

Arthur Melville, R.W.S., A.R.S.A., R.S.W. (1855-1904)
The Procession of the Corpus Christi, Toledo
signed, inscribed and dated 'Arthur. Melville/Toledo. 1890' (lower left), inscribed again 'Corpus Christi' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
30½ x 22 in. (77.5 x 55.9 cm.)

London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, Summer 1891, no. 184, catalogue not traced.
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Autumn 1891, no. 726, catalogue not traced.
London, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Arthur Melville, January - February 1906, no. 57.
Glasgow, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, 1907, no. 36.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Twenty Years of British Art 1890-1910, May - June 1910, no. 27.
Edinburgh, Bourne Fine Art, Arthur Melville Exhibition, August - October 1996, no. 47: this exhibition travelled to London, Fine Art Society, September - October 1996.

A.E. Mackay, Arthur Melville, Scottish Impressionist, Leigh-on-Sea, 1951, p. 141, no. 255.
I. Gale, Arthur Melville with a Catalogue Raisonné, Edinburgh, 1996, p. 97.

Caleb Margerison.
with Fine Art Society, London, where purchased by the present owner.

THE PROPERTY OF A SCOTTISH FAMILY

Arthur Melville, R.W.S., A.R.S.A., R.S.W. (1855-1904)
The Procession of the Corpus Christi, Toledo
signed, inscribed and dated 'Arthur. Melville/Toledo. 1890' (lower left), inscribed again 'Corpus Christi' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
30½ x 22 in. (77.5 x 55.9 cm.)