VIEW ON A WALLJohn Brett
1831 - 1902
Arthur Brett
1859
Oil on unlined canvas
48.3 × 38.1 cm. (19 ⅛ × 15 in.)
Signed and inscribed lower left: 'Portrait of Arthur/ John Brett/ March 1859'; Inscribed on the reverse: 'Lt Colonel Arthur Brett as a young man Queens Bay... painted by his brother John Brett ARA'
Framed Dimensions:
67.9 x 59.7 cm. (26 3/4 x 23 1/2 in.)Provenance:
By descent in the artist's family to 2019;Sotheby's, 10 December 2019, lot 2.
Literature:
Christiana Payne and Charles Brett, Objects of Affection – Pre-Raphaelite Portraits by John Brett, exh.cat, 2010, p.18-19, 44, reproduced p.45;
Christiana Payne and Charles Brett, John Brett Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter, Yale, 2010, p.205, no.306.
Exhibition History:
Birmingham, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, London, The Fine Art Society and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Objects of Affection – Pre-Raphaelite Portraits by John Brett, 2010, no.2.