LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

60.24 in. (153.00 cm.) (height) by 79.13 in. (201.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with initials and dated 'EL/1824' (lower right)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, 1824, no. 370. London, Royal Academy, The Works of the Late Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., 1874, no. 305.

Literature:

C. Westmacott, The Annual Descriptive & Critical Catalogue to the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, London, 1824, p. 16. F. G. Stephens, The Early Works of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., London, 1869, p. 64. A. Graves, (ed.), Catalogue of the Works of the Late Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., London, 1874, p. 9. F. G. Stephens, Memoirs of Sir Edwin Landseer: A Sketch of the Life of the Artist, London, 1874, p. 150. J. Egerton, Turner: The Fighting Téméraire, exh. cat., National Gallery, London, 1995, pp. 116-117, illustrated p. 118.

Provenance:

Commissioned by William Ellis Gosling, and by descent to his son, Ellis Gosling of Busbridge Hall, Surrey, and by descent through his daughter, Vere (d.1921, wife of George Milnes Monkton, 7th Viscount Galway); Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 29 October 1986, lot 212. with Spink, London. John T. Dorrance, Jun.; Sotheby's, New York, 18 October 1989, lot 3. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 22 June 2007, lot 18, where purchased by the present owner.