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Summary
Frank Bernard Dicksee : The House Builders ( ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q684057
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Title |
The House Builders
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Object type |
painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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Depicted people | Sir W.E. Welby-Gregory , The Hon. Lady Welby-Gregory | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1880
date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium |
oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions | 138.4 × 156.2 cm (54.4 × 61.4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
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Object history | Commissioned from the artist by Sir William Welby-Gregory, 4th Bart., and thence by descent. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Exhibition history |
London, Royal Academy, 1880, no. 40.
Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition , 1887, no. 434, lent by Sir W. Welby-Gregory, Bart. London, Society of Portrait Painters, 1891, no. 192. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Marble Halls: Drawings and Models for Victorian Secular Buildings , 1973, no. 152. London, Royal Academy, Commemorative Exhibition of Works by Late Members , Winter 1933, no. 167, lent by Sir C.G.E. Welby Bt., C.B. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting , 1985-6, no. 546. |
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Inscriptions |
Signature and date center left:
FRANK DICKSEE / 1880
Text bottom center:
AWB 1879
on a sheet of paper Text, signature and date reverse :
The House Builders / (Portraits of Sir W.E. & The Hon. Lady Welby-Gregory) / Frank Dicksee / -1880-2 Fitzroy Square / W.
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Notes |
On the table an architectural model of
Denton Hall
, as (re)built between 1879 and 1883.
In the background is a cabinet made by en:Herman Doomer , now part of the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (see: Reinier Baarsen, 'Herman Doomer, Ebony Worker in Amsterdam' , in: The Burlington Magazine Vol. 138, No. 1124 (Nov., 1996), pp. 739-749. |
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Source/Photographer | Christie's , LotFinder: entry 5631467 (sale 5969, lot 21, London, King Street, 13 December 2012 – estimated GBP 150,000 - GBP 250,000, price realised [hammer price plus buyer's premium, net of any applicable fees] GBP 145,250 ) |
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