Lot 26
Lot 26
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Michel Jean Cazabon (1813-1888)

Unloading sugar cane at the Woodbrook Estate Factory, Port of Spain, Trinidad

Price Realised GBP 18,750
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GBP 5,000 - GBP 8,000
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Michel Jean Cazabon (1813-1888)

Unloading sugar cane at the Woodbrook Estate Factory, Port of Spain, Trinidad

Price Realised GBP 18,750
Price Realised GBP 18,750
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Michel Jean Cazabon (1813-1888)
Unloading sugar cane at the Woodbrook Estate Factory, Port of Spain, Trinidad
oil on paper
912 x 1214in. (24.1 x 31.1cm.)
A extensive note (attached to the backing board) written by the great-grandson of the original owners describes the circumstances of the gift. Burnley Hunter Eccles managed the Woodbrook Estate at the time of his wedding.
Provenance
Given by the artist to Burnley Hunter Eccles and Isabella Maria Zürcher to mark their wedding, Woodbrook, April 1887, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature
G. MacLean, Cazabon, An Illustrated Biography of Tirinidad's Nineteenth Century Painter Michel Jean Cazabon, Port of Spain, 1986, p.133, 'Woodford Estate Factory, TAW.87.IaJ10' (incorrectly describing the medium as watercolour).
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