LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

55.91 in. (142.00 cm.) (height) by 35.00 in. (88.90 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, until 1961, as Philip Mercier. Hamilton, Ontario, McMaster University Art Gallery, 23 October-1 December 1978, as Philip Mercier.

Literature:

Interiors of the London House of the Honourable Peter C. Larkin' in Canadian Homes and Gardens, IV, no. 11, November 1927, p. 25, as Philip Mercier. 'A Georgian Mansion – Residence of Mrs. P.C. Larkin, May Street, Rosedale, Toronto', Canadian Homes and Gardens, IX, no. 2, February 1932, pp. 17-24, as Philip Mercier.

Provenance:

Peter C. Larkin (1856-1930), 94 Lancaster Gate, London, c. 1927, and by descent to Miss L. Aileen Larkin, by whom given in 1961 to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.