Lot 32: Frederick Richard Pickersgill, RA (British, 1820-1900) Viola and the Countess (Twelfth Night: Act III, Scene I) 36 1/2 x 29in (92.8 x 73.8cm)

Frederick Richard Pickersgill, RA (British, 1820-1900)
Viola and the Countess (Twelfth Night: Act III, Scene I)
signed, inscribed and dated 'F.R.P. RA/1859' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 1/2 x 29in (92.8 x 73.8cm)
Footnotes

Provenance
with Joseph Morby, Cornhill, around 1864;
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10 November 1998, lot 121;
with Kurt E. Schon, Ltd., New Orleans.

Exhibited
Montgomery, Alabama; New York; Chicago, Illinois; New Orleans, Louisiana; Hastings, Nebraska; Wilmington, Delaware; Reading, Pennsylvania; Hamilton, New York; Palm Beach, Florida; Monterey, California; Fayetteville, Arkansaw, The Art of Shakespeare, 1985-1989.
Odessa, Texas, Ellen Noel Museum of Art, Where Will You Travel Next?-Destinations in Paintings, November 2012-February 2013; Albany, New York, Albany Museum of Art, January-April 2014; Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown Museum of the Lehigh Valley, June-September 2014; Scranton, Pennsylvania, Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art, February-June 2015; Lakeland, Florida, Polk Museum of Art, July-December 2015.

Literature
The Art Journal, London, 1864, p. 80.
A Brush with Shakespeare, The Bard in Painting, 1780–1910, exh. cat., Montgomery, Alabama, 1986, p. 80, plate XV, illustrated.
The Art of Shakespeare, exh. cat., New Orleans, 1989, p. 81, illustrated.
James Allen Scott, Where Will You Travel Next? Destinations in Paintings, 2011, p. 31, illustrated.