Lot Essay
Evelyne Bell dates this work to 1780 (op. cit.) and notes that the basket is virtually identical to that in Walton’s The Silver Age, painted in 1777 and now in the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.
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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 184 & 186)
Henry Walton (Dickleburgh 1746-1813 London)
The Chicken Basket
Details
Henry Walton (Dickleburgh 1746-1813 London)
The Chicken Basket
oil on panel
19 ¼ x 17 1/8 in. (49.5 x 43.4 cm.)
in an English 18th century carved giltwood frame
The Chicken Basket
oil on panel
19 ¼ x 17 1/8 in. (49.5 x 43.4 cm.)
in an English 18th century carved giltwood frame
Literature
E. Bell, ‘The Life and Work of Henry Walton’, Gainsborough House Review 1998/99, p. 76, no. 200.
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