THEODORE BLAKE WIRGMAN (BRITISH 1848-1925)
PEACE WITH HONOUR
£25,000
The Forbes Collection at Old Battersea House
Auction: 1 November 2011 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
65cm x 76cm (25.5in x 30in), and an engraving after this painting (2)
Footnote
Note:
The present work depicts Queen Victoria and Disraeli in the visitors' sitting room at Osborne, July 1878, following the signing of the Berlin Treaty.
Provenance:
Anon. sale: Sotheby's, London, March 4, 1992, Lot 129, reproduced.
Literature:
Christopher Wood, Dictionary of Victorian Painters (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collector's Club, 1985), p. 525.