Lot 22: GEORGE DUNLOP LESLIE, R.A. | Matilda

oil on canvas

51 by 93cm., 20 by 36in.

oil on canvas

STRUCTURE This picture is unlined and in very good condition. The colour are bright and although there are small areas of craquelure (notably on the girl's face) these are only visible upon close inspection. UNDER ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT There are very minor flecked retouchings to the girl's face which have been very well executed. There are other very minor areas of flecked retouching. FRAME Contained in a composite moulded sweep frame.
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Royal Academy, 1860, no.578;
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1905, no.421

Times, 17 May 1860, p.578;
Cosmo Monkhouse, 'A Pre-Raphaelite Collection', in Magazine of Art, 1883, p.66, illustrated p.69;
Percy Bate, The English Pre-Raphaelite Painters, 1899, illustrated facing p.90

Purchased from the artist by John Hamilton Trist and thence by descent to Herbert Hardwick Trist in 1899 and further descent to Mrs Louisa Mary Trist (née Rigden);
Christie's, 23 April 1937 to 'Fasey';
Fine Art Society, London where purchased by a private collector;
Christie's, 10 June 2003, lot 103, where purchased by the present owner