'Frank Brangwyn and the picture dealer'

Details

Sir Frank Brangwyn, R.A. (1857-1956)
'Frank Brangwyn and the picture dealer'
inscribed 'F.B and the picture dealer' (lower centre) and inscribed again 'Your gift to Walhamstow' (upper right) and further inscribed 'Count de Belleroch. Coll.' (lower right, partly overmounted)
pencil, brush and blue/grey ink
8¾ x 8 1/8 in. (22.2 x 20.7 cm.)

Provenance

Count de Belleroch Collection (1864-1944) (according to the inscription).

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Sale room notice

Please note that the provenance should read William de Belleroche.
The picture dates from circa 1948 and is illustrated in Belleroche's, Brangwyyn's Pilgrimage, p. 241.

Lot Essay

The inscription indicates that the picture was in the collection of Count William de Belleroch, the eccentric American who liked to dress as King Henry VIII and who lived at New Place Manor, Pulborough, West Sussex in the 1960s.

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