File:Frank Dicksee - The House Builders.jpg
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[edit]Frank Bernard Dicksee: The House Builders
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| Title |
The House Builders |
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Depicted people | Sir W.E. Welby-Gregory, The Hon. Lady Welby-Gregory | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1880 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 138.4 × 156.2 cm (54.4 × 61.4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Private collection | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history | Commissioned from the artist by Sir William Welby-Gregory, 4th Bart., and thence by descent. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history |
London, Royal Academy, 1880, no. 40. Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887, no. 434, lent by Sir W. Welby-Gregory, Bart. London, Society of Portrait Painters, 1891, no. 192. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Marble Halls: Drawings and Models for Victorian Secular Buildings, 1973, no. 152. London, Royal Academy, Commemorative Exhibition of Works by Late Members, Winter 1933, no. 167, lent by Sir C.G.E. Welby Bt., C.B. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting, 1985-6, no. 546. |
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Signature and date center left: FRANK DICKSEE / 1880
Text bottom center:
AWB 1879
on a sheet of paper Text, signature and date reverse: The House Builders / (Portraits of Sir W.E. & The Hon. Lady Welby-Gregory) / Frank Dicksee / -1880-2 Fitzroy Square / W.
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| Notes |
On the table an architectural model of Denton Hall, as (re)built between 1879 and 1883. In the background is a cabinet made by en:Herman Doomer, now part of the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (see: Reinier Baarsen, 'Herman Doomer, Ebony Worker in Amsterdam', in: The Burlington Magazine Vol. 138, No. 1124 (Nov., 1996), pp. 739-749. |
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| Source/Photographer | Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5631467 (sale 5969, lot 21, London, King Street, 13 December 2012 – estimated GBP 150,000 - GBP 250,000, price realised [hammer price plus buyer's premium, net of any applicable fees] GBP 145,250) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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