Lot 317: Carl Johann Spielter (German, 1851-1922)

The Estate Auction signed and dated 'Carl Spielter 03' (upper left) oil on canvas 271/2 x 391/2 in. (70 x 100.3 cm.) PROVENANCE Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Parke Bernet, 23 February 1968, lot 158, when acquired by the present owner. LITERATURE F.A. van Braam & A.B. ter Haar Romeny (eds); World Collectors Annuary, vol. xx, 1968, p. 421, no. 4676. NOTES This was purchased for the Forbes Collection in the same auction as Frith's 'For Better, For Worse' (lot 10) at the very inception of the Victorian pictures collection (see Christopher Forbes's essay in the first catalogue of the present sale). A larger version (34 x 55 in.) was sold by Christie's, Edinburgh, 24 and 25 October, 1989, and a further version was mentioned in Art at Auction, (25 x 331/2 in.), New York, 2 March 1967.