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Sat, Sep 13, 2014 09:00AM EDT - Sun, Sep 14, 2014 09:00AM EDT
Lot 407

John Brett

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

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(British, 1830-1902) View of Black Rock, 1891, signed verso on stretcher and canvas "John Brett" and inscribed upper left "...Black Rock…10 July 91", oil on canvas, 7 x 14-1/4 in.; frame minor flaking lower left, some crackle, abrasions at edges; frame with abrasions and some resurfacing,. "The Black Rock, Tresaithe" (B. 1356); Provenance: Purchased from the artist, March 22, 1896 by Edward C. Corey for £15; Literature: Payne, Christina; Brett, Charles, [John Brett: Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter], New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010; Old Hall Gallery Limited, Sussex, England, no. 111R; A Private Atlanta Collection

Condition

minor flaking lower left, some crackle, abrasions at edges; frame with abrasions and some resurfacing,