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BENJAMIN WILLIAMS LEADER, R.A. (British, 1831-1923)
Twilight on the Thames
signed and dated 'B. W. LEADER 1895.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
2414 x 3634 in. (61.6 x 93.4 cm.)
Provenance
with Arthur Tooth and Sons, London.
John W. Kaufmann (1844-1904), St. Louis, acquired directly from the above, 1896.
His sale; American Art Association, New York, 3 February 1905, lot 74, as Evening on the Thames at Margrave.
H. W. Smith, acquired at the above sale.
(possibly) with M. Knoedler & Co., 1921.
George Washington Crawford (1861-1935), Pittsburgh.
Annie Laurie Crawford Aitken (1900-1984), his wife, by descent.
Russell B. Aitken (1910-1999), Newport and New York, her husband, by descent.
By descent to the present owner.
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