Lot 75: William Davis (1812-1873)

William Davis (1812-1873) Wallasey Mill, Cheshire signed 'W DAVIS' (lower right) oil on canvas 16½ x 26 in. (42 x 66 cm.)

Possibly Liverpool Art Club, William Davis Memorial Loan Exhibition, 1873, no. 34. London, Bernheimers and Stephen Somerville, 22 June-15 July 1988, no. 20. London, Leicester Galleries, Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelites and their Century, 1989, no. 35. Hove Museum & Art Gallery; Lincoln, Usher Gallery; Sudbury, Gainsborough House, The Romantic Windmill, March-September 1993, no. 61. Cardiff, National Museums & Galleries of Wales, Victorian Dreamers, 22 October 2005-8 January 2006.

Possibly George Rae, Redcourt, Birkenhead, by 1873. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 27 October 1982, lot 133. Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 24 November 1987, lot 164, as 'Windmill and figure in horse & cart in landscape'. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 March 1988, lot 26. with Peter Nahum, Leicester Galleries, until 1993. M.R. Kisch, London, by 1995, until 2004.