Lot 70: Sketch for 'An Apotheosis of Bristol'

Ernest Board (1877-1934)
Sketch for 'An Apotheosis of Bristol'
signed and dated 'ERNEST BOARD./1915' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed 'No 1/"Sketch for an Apotheosis/of Bristol"/Ernest Board./Well known characters shown/in sketch:-/Cabot, Colston, Canynges,/Chatterton, Southey, Lawrence,/Muller, Macready, Mrs/Robinson, Mary Carpenter/Hannah More, Hugh Conway,/John Addington Symonds/etc' (on an old label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas, in an arch-topped slip
30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm.)

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