Thomas Seddon

Lot 74: THOMAS SEDDON

Name: THOMAS SEDDON
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 208921776a

Est: £40,000 GBP - £60,000 GBP

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 15, 2011

Item Overview

Description

PROPERTY OF PRE-RAPHAELITE INC.
1821-1856
PENELOPE 'THEN DURING THE DAY SHE WOVE THE LARGE WEB, WHICH AT NIGHT SHE UNRAVELLED' THE ODYSSEY
signed and dated l.r.: T Seddon 18/52
oil on canvas
91.5 by 71cm., 36 by 28in.

Artist or Maker

Thomas Seddon

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1852, no. 339;
London, Society of Arts, Thomas Seddon Memorial Exhibition, 1857

Literature

John P. Seddon, Memoir and Letters of the late Thomas Seddon, artist, By his Brother, 1859, pp. 16-17;
The Journal of the Society of Arts, May 1857, pp.360-362;
The Art Journal, 1857, p.198

Provenance

George Wilson of Redgrave Hall, Suffolk and thence by descent to Mr P.J. Holt Wilson, by whom sold Sotheby's, 28 November 1972, lot 49

Auction Details

Victorian & Edwardian Art

Sotheby's

November 15, 2011, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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