LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

41.54 in. (105.50 cm.) (height) by 32.68 in. (83.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'ORPEN' (lower left)

Exhibited:

London, Goupil Gallery, Goupil Gallery Salon, 1909, no. 143.

Literature:

'London Exhibitions - Goupil Gallery Salon', The Art Journal, 1909, pp. 380-381. 'The Goupil Gallery Salon', The Athenaeum, 30 October 1909, p. 533. EM, 'Art Notes', The Illustrated London News, 30 October 1909, p. 610. James Bone, 'The Goupil Salon', The Manchester Guardian, 6 November 1909, p. 10. 'Art Exhibitions', The Times, 26 October 1909, p. 11. C. Brinton, 'William Orpen, A New British Painter', The Century Magazine, vol. LXXX, no. 5, September 1910, p. 658 (illustrated as Young Ireland in error). P.G. Konody and S. Dark, Sir William Orpen, Artist and Man, 1932, London, p. 268.

Provenance:

with Goupil Gallery, London, from whom purchased by. Francis Williams Tofthill, 18 December 1909 (262 gns.) and thence by descent; Christie's, London, 12 October 1973, lot 221 (6,500 gns.). Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 6 March 1992, lot 19, where purchased by Thomas J. Carroll.