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Peace
Details
Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. (1831-1923)
Peace
signed and dated 'B.W. LEADER. 1915.' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'Peace B.W. Leader.' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
36 x 60 in. (91.4 x 152.3 cm.)
Peace
signed and dated 'B.W. LEADER. 1915.' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'Peace B.W. Leader.' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
36 x 60 in. (91.4 x 152.3 cm.)
Provenance
with Richard Green, London.
Literature
F. Lewis, Benjamin Williams Leader RA 1831-1923, Leigh on Sea, 1971, pp. 30 & 55, no. 660.
R. Wood, Benjamin Williams Leader RA 1831-1923: His Life and Paintings, Woodbridge, 1998, p. 131.
R. Wood, Benjamin Williams Leader RA 1831-1923: His Life and Paintings, Woodbridge, 1998, p. 131.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1915, no. 422, as Peace "Yellow the Cornfields lay although as yet Unto the stucks no sickle had been set" -Morris
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