Sunday morning

Details

Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922)
Sunday morning
signed with initials and dated 'E.B.L. 1901.' (lower left)
oil on panel
13 5/8 x 9 ¾ in. (34.6 x 24.7 cm.)

Provenance

Thomas Crosbie, Cork, by whom given to
The Irish Red Cross, 1943.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1989, lot 192.

Literature

A. Yockney, The Art Annual: The Art of E. Blair Leighton, London, Christmas 1913, p. 31.

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Lot Essay

This work was painted near the artist's summer residence in Norfolk.

We are grateful to Kara Lysandra Ross for her assistance in preparing the catalogue entry for this picture, which will be included in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Edmund Blair Leighton.

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