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SOLD BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE ELIOT HODGKIN WILL TRUST LOTS 113 - 116 Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) bequeathed his collection of pictures and other works of art in trust for his wife, and subject to her interest the collection or the net sale proceeds thereof are held for the Georgian Group and the Victorian Society. For the catalogue of the exhibition at Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 14 March - 10 April 1990, Eliot Hodgkin 1905-1987 Painter and Collector, Sir Brinsley Ford provided an affectionate and admiring introduction which comprised a brief biography and reflections on his friend's achievements, both as a gifted and individual artist and as a collector of an unusual range of interests fully shared by his wife Mimi. Eliot Hodgkin was particularly interested in architecture and the preservation of distinguished buildings, many of which he had seen destroyed during World War II and its aftermath.

Charles Samuel Keene (1823-1891)

A Cockney boy; and A coachman

Details

Charles Samuel Keene (1823-1891)
A Cockney boy; and A coachman
pen and brown ink, one on blue paper
5¾ x 3¼ in. (14.6 x 8.5 cm.) (2)

Provenance

(1) with The Fine Art Society, London, 1967.
(2) Richard Smart from whom gifted to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

A similar study of the coachman in the collection of Simon Houfe is datable circa 1870-1875.

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