Portrait of Master John Walter Wolseley (b. 1938)

Details

Dame Laura Knight, R.A., R.W.S. (1877-1970)
Portrait of Master John Walter Wolseley (b. 1938)
Signed 'Laura Knight' (lower left) and inscribed 'MORS EST VITA MIHI' (on the Wolseley coat-of-arms, upper right)
oil on canvas
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm.)

Provenance

John Walter Wolseley, Nettlecombe, Somerset.
By whom sold to Carlton Hobbs.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1951, no. 171.

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Lot Essay

The sitter, John Walter Wolseley, was born in Somerset in 1938. An artist who settled in Australia in 1976, he has since travelled the continent extensively, painting the landscape and chronicling both its physical evolution and that of those who dwell within it.

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