Henry Alexander Bowler Sold at Auction Prices

Painter, b. 1824 - d. 1903

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    • HENRY ALEXANDER BOWLER (1824 Kensington - 1903 London)
      Jun. 27, 2020

      HENRY ALEXANDER BOWLER (1824 Kensington - 1903 London)

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      oel auf Leinwand (doubliert), ¨Evening at Stirling¨ (Ausblick vom Waldrand in Gebirgstal, im Hintergrund Gebirge), unten links monogrammiert ¨H.A.B.¨, verso auf Keilrahmen bezeichnet ¨Inscribed on revers of original canvas: Evening at Stirling, H.A. Bowler, No. 2. Exhibited R.A. 1857 No. 1076¨, Rahmen mit Kuenstlerplakette (mit gleichen Angaben wie verso), ca. 61x51cm, gerahmt (75x65,5cm), craqueliert

      Auktionshaus Rotherbaum OHG
    • Attributed to John Samuel Hayward 1778-1822-
      Oct. 09, 2007

      Attributed to John Samuel Hayward 1778-1822-

      Est: £100 - £150

      Attributed to John Samuel Hayward 1778-1822- "Boulogne"; pen and brown ink on laid, inscribed and dated Nov 14 1818, 18x31cm: Attributed to Henry Alexander Bowler 1824-1903- Portrait of a girl seated half-length; pencil on buff paper, inscribed and dated, 14x10cm., (2)

      Roseberys
    • George Elgar Hicks (1824-1914)
      Feb. 19, 2003

      George Elgar Hicks (1824-1914)

      Est: $15,900 - $23,850

      A Cloud with a Silver Lining signed and dated 'G.E. Hicks.1890.' (lower left) and inscribed 'Cloud with a Silver Lining' (on the reverse prior to relining) oil on canvas 50 x 401/4 in. (127 x 102.2 cm.) PROVENANCE Anon. sale [G.E. Hicks], Christie's, London, 18 March 1911, lot 88 (5 gns to Lister). with Coulter Galleries, New York. Anon. sale, Christie's London, 5 June 1964, lot 167 as 'The Death of a Child' (6 gns). Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 2 May 1979, lot 231 as 'The Mourning', when acquired by the present owner. LITERATURE C. Wood, Victorian Panorama, Paintings of Victorian Life, London, 1976, p. 108, pl. 108. EXHIBITION London, Royal Academy, 1890, no. 786. Melbourne, Australia, 1890. London, Geffrye Museum, and Southampton Art Gallery, George Elgar Hicks, Painter of Victorian Life, 1982-1983, no. 40. Victorian Childhood, 1986, cat. pl. 39. Childhood, 1988, no. 217. Virtue Rewarded, 1988-90, no. 28. The Defining Moment, 2000-1, no. 22. NOTES Hicks is best known as an exemplary painter of genre, and a rival to Frith in his depictions of crowd scenes: Dividend Day, Bank of England, 1859 (National Trust) and The General Post Office, One minute to 6, 1860 (private collection) ensured his reputation, and enabled him in his later career to establish a lucrative portrait practice. His oeuvre also encompassed a few religious paintings while an obituary notice in the Art Journal revealed him to be a 'strict churchman of the Evangelical School'. Mortality, especially among infants, was ever present in Victorian society, and having lost two sons, Frederick, aged five, and Charles at one month, Hicks was moved to paint this picture as a comfort for others. The composition derives in part from the Old Masters. The child reclines in the mother's arms like the dead Christ in a PiŠta, while the father kneels over him recalling the adoration of the shepherds and the magi. The title of the picture, and the literal depiction of the proverbial 'cloud with a silver lining', denotes Hicks's belief that death offered a 'blessed release' from the sins of the world, and that the child's soul would be reborn, healthy and happy, in heaven. The picture is one of several in the Forbes collection on the subject of sickness and mortality, reflecting the fact that many pictures in each Royal Academy exhibition throughout the Victorian period were pre-occupied with this theme. Fred Walker's At the Sick Man's Door and Faed's Worn Out, offer some hope of redemption, while Thomas Brooks's Resignation again suggests the comfort of religion to the bereaved. However, the nineteenth century also saw growing expressions of religious uncertainty, exacerbated by the theories of Charles Darwin, and finding pictorial expression in works such as Henry Bowler's The Doubt - Can these dry bones live?, R.A. 1855, (Tate Gallery).

      Christie's
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