LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

21.65 in. (55.00 cm.) (height) by 38.58 in. (98.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'C. Lees R.S.A./1859' (lower left)

Condition:

framed

Exhibited:

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, 1860, no.75

Literature:

Apparently appeared in Golf Illustrated, 1914. ,P. Pilley, Golfing Art, Stanley Paul, 1988, pp.38-39,D. Hamilton, Golf-Scotland's Game, Partick Press, 1998. Illustrated on the front cover

Provenance:

Walter Brown, Canada. Inherited from his father (by 1914), who had purchased the picture from the R.S.A. exhibition in 1860.,Paul Mellon, acquired circa 1930s. Inventory no. PM 6996. American banking heir Mellon has been called the 'greatest collector of British art of any period'. ,George Warren Wyckoff Sr (1907-1987), a gift from the above. Wyckoff was Vice President and Governor of T. Mellon & Sons, Pittsburgh, and personal representative of Paul Mellon on the board of the National Gallery in Washington.,Thence by descent