Lot 3247 - A184 19th Century Paintings - Friday, 23. March 2018, 05.00 PM
WILLIAM ETTY
(1787 York 1849)
Portrait of a boy. George Shepherd at 8 years of age. 1834.
Oil on panel.
Signed and dated verso: No. 5 [?]./ W. Etty. R.A. Inscribed: Study of a Boy’s/ Head/ George Shepherd/8 years of age.
44 x 30.5 cm.
Provenance:
- Presumably commissioned directly from the artist and in the same family estate by descent.
- Swiss private collection.
Exhibited:
Probably Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1835, No. 36 ('Study of the head of a youth’).
Literature:
Gilchrist, Alexander: Life of William Etty, R.A., vol. 2, London 1855, p. 22-23 ('a Head of a Boy’).
We are grateful to Richard Green for his support in cataloguing the present painting on the basis of a photograph. For Richard Green, there is no doubt that this portrait of a boy is a work by the hand of William Etty.
CHF 3 000 / 4 000 | (€ 3 090 / 4 120)
Sold for CHF 12 500 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.