Lot Essay
We are grateful to Kara Lysandra Ross for her assistance in preparing the catalogue entry for this picture, which will be included in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Edmund Blair Leighton.
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The request
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Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922)
The request
signed with initials and dated 'E B L/92' (lower right) and further signed, inscribed and numbered '2/The Request/E Blair Leighton/7 Priory Road/Bedford Park. W.' (on an exhibition label attached to the reverse)
oil on panel
14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4 cm.)
The request
signed with initials and dated 'E B L/92' (lower right) and further signed, inscribed and numbered '2/The Request/E Blair Leighton/7 Priory Road/Bedford Park. W.' (on an exhibition label attached to the reverse)
oil on panel
14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4 cm.)
Provenance
Private Collection.
Maintie Mason, London, and by descent.
R. Steven Lawson, Virginia, by 1974, from whom acquired by the present owner.
Maintie Mason, London, and by descent.
R. Steven Lawson, Virginia, by 1974, from whom acquired by the present owner.
Literature
K. Ross, 'E. Blair Leighton: The Prominent Outsider', Fine Art Connoisseur, May/June 2011, illustrated p. 27.
K. Ross, 'E. Blair Leighton: The Prominent Outsider', The Epoch Times, 18 August 2011, illustrated.
K. Ross, 'E. Blair Leighton: The Prominent Outsider', The Epoch Times, 18 August 2011, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Institute of Painters in Oil Colours, 1892, no. 2.
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