A Wooded Hill with the Sea beyond
Sir Frederic Leighton, Lord Leighton PRA (Scarborough 1830 – Kensington 1896)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1850 - 1896
Materials
Oil on board. Glass and wood.
Measurements
423 x 516 x 36 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 584345
Summary
Oil painting on board, A Wooded Hill by Sir Frederic Leighton, Lord Leighton PRA (Scarborough 1830 – Kensington 1896). A view of the blue sea, seen through the autumn colours of the trees.
Provenance
Lord Leighton (1830 - 1896) sale, Christie's, 13 July 1896, lot 242; bought by Agnew; Joseph Ruston (1835 - 1897), his sale 21 May 1898, lot 29; Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928), 1898 (see his ms. Diary); given with the property to the National Trust in 1941 by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Bt (1870 - 1958)
Credit line
Wallington, The Trevelyan Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Back board: Partial torn label reads- WITH CARE then handwritten in black ink reads- Sir |G.O.Trevelyan Bart Back board : Partial label 242 A Woody Hill side. July 13 1896. Back board : Print reads - LORD LEIGHTON P.R.A Back board: A printed London gallery label THO AGNEW & SON Back board: A Royal Academy Winter Exhibition 1897. Back board: A torn label with large red numbers - 124 Back board: Stamped onto back board - 20/?
Makers and roles
Sir Frederic Leighton, Lord Leighton PRA (Scarborough 1830 – Kensington 1896), artist