Lot Essay
This painting depicts the artist's daughter, Millicent Alice (b. 1871), playing her violin. Millicent also appears in Sympathy painted ten years earlier (circa 1878, Tate Britain).
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A Cavatina
Details
Briton Riviere, R.A. (1840-1920)
A Cavatina
dated '1888' (centre right) and signed and inscribed 'A Cavatina/Briton Riviere RA/82 Finchley Road/NW' (on a label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
43 ½ x 33 ½ in. (110.5 x 85 cm.)
A Cavatina
dated '1888' (centre right) and signed and inscribed 'A Cavatina/Briton Riviere RA/82 Finchley Road/NW' (on a label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
43 ½ x 33 ½ in. (110.5 x 85 cm.)
Provenance
By descent in the family of the artist to the present owner.
Literature
Academy Notes, London, 1888, p. 7.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1888, no. 281.
Surrey, Egham, Royal Holloway, University of London, on loan.
Surrey, Egham, Royal Holloway, University of London, on loan.
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