Lot 20: LADY LAURA-THÉRÉSA ALMA-TADEMA | A Looking Out O'Window, Sunshine

oil on canvas

62 by 40cm.; 24 by 16in.

oil on canvas

STRUCTURE Original canvas. The canvas undulates slightly and there are some faint signs of craquelure in the upper half of the painting. Otherwise the work appears in good overall condition, clean and ready to hang. ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT UV light reveals two small areas of retouching near the centre of the lower edge. FRAME Held in original classical tabernacle frame. Please telephone the department on 0207 293 5718 if you have any questions about the present work.
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London, Corporation Art Gallery, Loan Collection of Pictures by Living British Painters, 1900, no.80;
London, Fine Art Society, Lady Alma-Tadema Memorial Exhibition, 1910, no.74

Marion Hepworth Dixon, 'Lady Alma-Tadema's Pictures', in Studio, vol.50, 1910, illus. p.56

G.W. Fowler, Frimley Hall, Camberley, Surrey by 1900 and until at least 1910;
Christie's, 14 June 2000, lot 21;
Private collection