Pictures, Drawings & Sketches in Oil and Water-Colors, the Property of the Late C. R. Leslie, Esq., R. A.

Messrs. Foster

Reference: Foster’s, 27 April 1860

The sale took place over four days, 25–28 April 1860

Lugt, Catalogues, no.25513

Copy consulted: Frick Art Reference Library, New York, online at Art Sales Catalogues Online

Day 3

404 – ‘Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire’ (TG1056)
405 – ‘Water Mill. This fine sketch exemplifies what was said of Girtin’s manner of painting by F. C. Lewis, who had seen him work: – “He understood the SWORD PLAY of the brush wonderfully.”’
406 – ‘Bala Lake, North Wales, with the Mountains Arran, Mowddy, Cader Idris, &c., engraved in the Hand Book, where Mr. Leslie describes it as a drawing of “exceeding beauty”’ (TG1334)
420 – ‘Girtin’s Views in Paris’
644 – 'Illustrations to the Hand Book, by Lupton, after Cozens and Girtin, proofs; and Church with Bridge, Girtin 6'

Identified Exhibits