Ben Vorlic

Details

Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. (1831-1923)
Ben Vorlic
signed and dated 'B.W.Leader 1858' (lower left)
oil on board
8 7/8 x 14 in. (22.5 x 35.6 cm.)

Provenance

with Polak Galleries, London, 1942.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 October 1942, lot 131 (4 gns to Corbauld).

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Lot Essay

Leader submitted a large view of Ben Vorlic, now in Rochdale Art Gallery, to the Royal Academy in 1858, which was accepted but not hung 'for want of room'. A comparable small view, also dated 1858, was recently offered at The Maas Gallery, exh. cat. 2002, no. 3. The pictures are early works by the artist, executed in the Pre-Raphaelite technique of painting on a white ground. The previous year the artist had changed his surname from Williams to Leader in order to distinguish himself from other members of that extensive artistic family.

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