Lot 18: AR William Somerville Shanks RSA RSW (1864-1951) Still Life with Fruit

AR William Somerville Shanks RSA RSW (1864-1951)
Still Life with Fruit and Print
signed ‘W Somerville Shanks’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
62 x 74 cm. (24 13/16 x 30 1/8 in.)


Provenance
With James McClure & Son, Glasgow
Exhibited
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, 1932, (possibly) cat.no. 107 as
Fruit
Shanks wrote to the original purchaser of the picture in 1932 to
request the loan of the picture to the Royal Scottish Academy, saying
that ‘I regard it as one of my best works’.