Sale 6074
London
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17 December 1998
Price realised
GBP 460
Estimate
After of George Elgar Hicks (1824-1914) Portrait of Adelaide Maria, Countess of Iveagh, reclining on an sofa in a palm-house with inscription 'GE Hicks 1867 Iveagh's Countess of Adelaide Maria' pencil, watercolour, bodycolour 323 x 256 mm.; and a view of the cathedral of Dieppe attributed to Burgess, and two drawings attributed to Hayter and Varley (4)
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A picture by Hicks depicting the same subject and dated 1885 was exhibited in the Geffrye Museum, Rosamund Allwood, George Elgar Hicks, London, 1982, p. 63, illustrated.
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