Lot 127: HERBERT JAMES DRAPER (1864-1920) A Deep Sea Idyll signed ‘Herbert

HERBERT JAMES DRAPER (1864-1920)
A Deep Sea Idyll
signed ‘Herbert Draper’ (lower right)
oil on canvas 521/2 x 301/2 in. (135.4 x 77.5 cm.)
In the original artist-designed frame.

PROVENANCE:
Loaned by the artist in 1903 to the Municipal Art Gallery (now Tatham Art
Gallery), Pietermaritzburg (where known as ‘A Sea-Maid’s Love Story’), and
purchased by public subscription for the Gallery before 1905.
Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, until de-accessioned and sold by public
tender in 1963, where purchased by
Mr C. E. Langton, Langton & Littlejohn Studios, Vanderbijlpark.
Anonymous sale; Lezard Auctioneers, Johannesburg, 20 November 1964, lot 24, as ‘The Sea Maid’s Love Story’, where purchased by Vice-Admiral George
Marker Wauchope, and by descent to the present owner.