Francis Wheatley, R.A.* (1747-1801)

'King Alfred in the House of the Neatherd'

细节

Francis Wheatley, R.A.* (1747-1801)
'King Alfred in the House of the Neatherd'
signed and dated 'F: Wheatley p.x.^t/1792'
oil on canvas
79 x 58in. (206 x 149.8cm.)

来源

Robert Bowyer, by whom commissioned from the artist.
Robert Madocks, 1893.

出版

M. Webster, Francis Wheatley, 1970, pp. 91 and 147, no. 98 and p. 92, fig. 129.

刻印

W. Bromley, February 1795.

拍品专文

After the success of Wheatley's thirteen paintings for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, Robert Bowyer planned a similar project to illustrate Hume's History of England. Accordingly, in 1792 Wheatley was commissioned to paint both the present lot and The Death of Richard II (whereabouts unknown), both of which were subsequently engraved.

Sold with a photocopy of a letter from Mary Webster, dated August 27, 1929, confirming the attribution to Wheatley.