Evening Glow

Details

Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. (1831-1923)
Evening Glow
signed and dated 'B.W. LEADER. 1895.' (lower left) and further signed, inscribed and numbered 'N^o 1 Evening Glow. B.W. Leader' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
50 ½ x 84 ½ in. (128.3 x 214.6 cm.)
In the original frame.

Provenance

with M. Newman, London.
with Agnew's, London.
Mrs Helen Colman, by whom given to
Frederick Gordon D. Colman, on his marriage on 2 August 1911.

Literature

F. Lewis, Benjamin Williams Leader R.A. 1831-1923, Leigh-on-Sea, 1971, p. 45, no. 362.
R. Wood, Benjamin Williams Leader RA 1831-1923: His Life and Paintings, Woodbridge, 1998, p. 130.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1895, no. 534.

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Lot Essay

According to Lewis (loc. cit.) this painting was executed in Worcestershire, but there are also strong similarities in the composition with Burrows Cross, Surrey (1920), which shows a comparable group of majestic Scots pine trees, glowing in the evening sunlight, sitting high above the thickly wooded Winterfold ridge below. Leader and his family moved to Burrows Cross House, a large mansion designed by the architect Norman Shaw, near Guildford in 1889.

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