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EDMUND BLAIR LEIGHTON (LONDON 1852-1922)
The Appointed Time
signed with initials and dated 'E.B.L.90' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed '"The Appointed Time" / E. Blair Leighton / 7 Priory Road / Bedford Park / £80' (on an exhibition label attached to the reverse)
oil on panel
1334 x 934 in. (34.9 x 24.8 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 9 April 1946, where acquired by the following,
with Mitchell Galleries, London.
Private collection, UK, and by descent.
Anonymous sale; Lawrences, Crewkerne, 9 July 2010, lot 2139.
Private collection, Newcastle.
Literature
A. Yockney, The Art Annual: The Art of E. Blair Leighton, London, Christmas 1913, p. 30.
Exhibited
London, Institute of Painters in Oil Colours, 1890, no. 3.
Special notice
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