Evening on the Surrey Wolds

Details

Benjamin William Leader, R.A. (1831-1923)
Evening on the Surrey Wolds
signed and dated 'B.W.LEADER 1892.' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'Evening on the Surrey Wolds B.W.Leader.' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
30¼ x 48 in. (76.8 x 122 cm.)

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Arthur Tooth, London, October 1892 (£275).
Anonymous sale [Arthur Anderson (+)]; Christie's, London, 19 May 1894, lot 29 (£315 to Gribble).
with M. Newman Ltd., London, by 1956.

Literature

The artist's own sale records, 1892.
Exhibition catalogue, Winter Exhibition, Arthur Tooth, London, 1892.
F. Lewis, Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A., Leigh-on-Sea, 1971, p. 44, no. 330.

Exhibited

London, Arthur Tooth, Winter Exhibition, 1892, no. 34.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Leader depicts Burrows Cross, a crossroads outside Gomshall in Surrey. The artist had moved to Gomshall in 1889 from his birth county of Worcestershire. The Scots pine trees are a dominant feature of Leader's Surrey landscapes; they remain characteristic of the landscape today.

A small preparatory sketch for the present lot exists, however it is dated 1893; a common error for Leader who would annotate material retrospectively when preparing it for exhibition or sale.

We are grateful to Ruth Wood for her help in preparing this catalogue entry.

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