Lot 264: JOHN HOLLAND ACTIVE 1831-1879

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JOHN AND ISABELLE STEVENSON

AN ENGLISH MERRYMAKING

measurements
33 1/2 by 54 in.

alternate measurements
85.1 by 137.2 cm.

signed JHolland (lower left)

oil on canvas

Condition Note: Canvas is re-lined and has overall surface dirt and cracquelure. Craquelure across canvas in sky (upper portion) and ground (lower portion) has lead to some areas of flaking and loss. Abrasion to left and right edges. Scratch to varnish lower right. Upper right corner of canvas is bowed. Under UV: various generations of inpaint to areas of the sky and ground (in relation to areas of flaking and loss). Also older in-paint to buildings and to figures center left and right.

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EXHIBITED

London, Royal Society of British Artists, 1867, probably No. 5