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SIR DAVID WILKIE R.A. (CULTS, FIFE 1785-1841 GIBRALTAR)
Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843)
oil on canvas
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
Provenance
By inheritance from the artist to his executors, his siblings Thomas Wilkie and Helen Wilkie, by whom sold at the following,
Works of Sir David Wilkie; sketches made during his last tour in the East; Christie's, London, 30 April 1842 (=6th day), lot 637, sold for 12 gns. to,
Basil Hall (1788-1844), and by inheritance to his brother,
James Hall (1800-1854); his sale (†), Christie's, London, 19 Arpil 1855, lot 263 (3 gns. to Anthony).
Anonymous sale; Robinson and Fisher, Bedford, 18 June 1913, lot 6, where acquired by the following,
with Knoedler & Co., London, from whom acquired in 1913 by,
Hon. Evan Charteris (1864-1940), and by inheritance to his step-daughter,
Hon. Rosemary Helen Dawnay (1918-1969).
with Thomas Agnew & Son, London, by 1978.
with Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1978, where acquired by the present owner. Literature
O. Millar, Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 1969, I, p. 143, under no. 1186.Exhibited
London, British Institution, Wilkie Memorial Exhibition, 1842, no. 107.
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Empire and Regency, 1929-1930, no 10.
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Three centuries of British paintings, 9 March-28 April 1978, no. 42.
London, Spink & Son, English Oil Paintings, 14 November-8 December 1978, no. 43.Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
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