Lot Essay
This is a portrait of the Tait family dog, Bijou, and was painted in Rocky Dell, White Plains, New York.
Details
ARTHUR FITZWILLIAM TAIT (1819-1905)
Bijou
signed A.F. Tait, dated 1886 and inscribed N.A. l.r. -- signed again, dated Rocky Dell, WT Plains, August 1886 and inscribed with title on the reverse
-- oil on board
10 x 12 in. (25.5 x 30.5 cm.)
Bijou
signed A.F. Tait, dated 1886 and inscribed N.A. l.r. -- signed again, dated Rocky Dell, WT Plains, August 1886 and inscribed with title on the reverse
-- oil on board
10 x 12 in. (25.5 x 30.5 cm.)
Provenance
Henry B. Holt, Essex Falls, N.J.
Literature
W. Cadbury and H. Marsh, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, Artist in the Adirondacks, Newark, 1986, p. 279, no. 86.21