Interior with figures by a window

Name: SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A. (CULTS, FIFE 1785-1841 GIBRALTAR)
Brand: Interior with figures by a window
Price: 2400.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 3,000

Estimate

GBP 5,000 - GBP 8,000

Closed: 8 Dec 2021

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SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A. (CULTS, FIFE 1785-1841 GIBRALTAR)

Interior with figures by a window

Price Realised GBP 3,000

Closed: 8 Dec 2021

Price Realised GBP 3,000

Closed: 8 Dec 2021

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SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A. (CULTS, FIFE 1785-1841 GIBRALTAR)
Interior with figures by a window
oil on panel
6³⁄₈ x 5³⁄₄ in. (16.2 x 14.6 cm.)

This painting recalls the work of Adriaen van Ostade, a painter in whom Wilkie had long been interested. The specific inspiration for the scene may have been Ostade's Interior of a cottage (Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace), which he would have had an opportunity to examine when it was sold at Christie's on 12 June 1811, before being acquired by the Prince Regent for Carlton House.

Bought from the artist by General Sir Willoughby Gordon, 1st Bt. (1772-1851), on 8 January 1817, and by descent to his son,
Sir Henry Gordon, 2nd Bt. (1806-1876), and by descent to his daughter,
Mary Gordon (d. 1926) and her husband General Robert Disney Leith (1819-1892), and by descent in the family to their grandson,
Captain the Hon. John Disney Leith (1909-1968), and by inheritance to his wife,
Mona Leith (1910-1980); Phillips, Edinburgh, 7 November 1980, lot 91, where acquired by the following,
with The Fine Art Society, London, where acquired by the present owner.

London, The Fine Art Society, Fourteen Small Pictures by Wilkie, 1981, no. 6.
London, Thomas Agnew and Sons, English Watercolours Drawings and Small Oil Paintings, 1-24 March 2000, no. 98.

This lot is offered without reserve.
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
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