Lot 921: DAVID WILKIE WYNFIELD

THE LADY OF SHALLOT
signed D W WYNFIELD (lower right)

26 1/2 by 48 in. 67.3 by 121.9 cm

oil on canvas

London, Royal Academy, 1863, no. 489 (with the following text: And at the closing of the day/she loosed the chain, and down she lay,/The broad stream bore her far away.)

Wynfield studied with J.M. Leigh and lived in St. John's Wood, London, where he founded the St. John's Wood Clique. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1859 and 1887, displaying pictures inspired by sixteenth and seventeeth century British history. Wynfield was also an important Victorian photographer, and is considered a pioneer in this field.