Portrait of Colonel Herbert Harrington Roberts (b.1837)

Name: ANTHONY FREDERICK AUGUSTUS SANDYS (BRITISH, 1829-1904)
Brand: Portrait of Colonel Herbert Harrington Roberts (b.1837)
Price: 6500.00 GBP
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Closed: 15 Jul 2022

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ANTHONY FREDERICK AUGUSTUS SANDYS (BRITISH, 1829-1904)

Portrait of Colonel Herbert Harrington Roberts (b.1837)

Closed: 15 Jul 2022

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ANTHONY FREDERICK AUGUSTUS SANDYS (BRITISH, 1829-1904)
Portrait of Colonel Herbert Harrington Roberts (b.1837)
signed, inscribed and dated 'Herbert. H. Roberts. 1874. F. Sandys' (upper left)
black and coloured chalks on buff paper
25¹⁄₂ x 20³⁄₈ in. (64.7 x 51.7 cm.)

Peter Rose and Albert Gallichan.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's Belgravia, 14 June 1977, lot 15.
Macmillan and Perrin Gallery, Vancouver and Toronto
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 June 1982, lot 288.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 1 March 1983, lot 112 (£300 to Clarendon Gallery).
Anonymous sale; Sothebys, London, 30 May 1985, lot 424 (bt. Colnaghi).

H.H. Roberts, Memories of Fourscore Years, Bodley Head, 1920, p. 61.
B. Elzea, Frederick Sandys, a Catalogue Raisonne, Woodbridge, 2001, p. 252, no. 3.56.

Brighton, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Death, Heaven and the Victorians, 1970, no. 116.
Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904, 1974, no. 116
Toronto, Macmillan and Perrin Gallery, Victorian Romantics, 15 October - 13 November 1979, no. 20.
London, Clarendon Gallery, Society Portraits, 1985, unnumbered.

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Lot Essay

Colonel Herbert Harrington Roberts was a friend of Sandys, and other artists including Seymour Lucas, John Watson Nicol, and the Copes. He wrote an autobiography in 1920 entitled , which was published privatedly by Bodley Head. This does not make it entirely clear when the two first met, but it seems that Sandys' father encouraged Roberts' education at the Norwich School of Design. Roberts went on to Cary's School of Art in Bloomsbury, before being accepted to the Royal Academy Schools, in the same year as Frederick Walker (1840-1875), and William Blake Richmond (1842-1921). However, he moved away from an artistic career and obtained a commission in the 1st Warwickshire Militia. He lived for a time as a young man at Thorpe, near Norwich, and it was here that he met Frederick Sandys, to whom he lent the studio he had built at the house. They seem to have become friends, and Roberts to have owned several works by Sandys.