FREDERICK R LEE R.A. ( 1798 – 1879 )

Name: FREDERICK R LEE R.A. ( 1798 - 1879 )
SKU: 19334
Price: 1500.00 GBP
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Description

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FREDERICK RICHARD LEE R.A. ( 1798 – 1879 )

A beautiful large signed oil on canvas by the English landscape painter Frederick Richard Lee R.A. The work depicts an extensive landscape with a waterfall in the foreground and is signed lower right and on its original stretcher. The painting dates to around 1830 and has been relined around 1900.

Title: “The Waterfall”

Signature: Signed lower right

Provenance: Private UK collection

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 16 x 24 inches unframed

Condition: Relined c. 1900 – some small marks and light crazing

Born 10 June 1798, in Barnstaple; died 4 June 1879, in the Cape Colony.

Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman. Hunting scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures, seascapes.

Frederick Richard Lee started off in the services and fought one campaign in Holland. He then studied at the Royal Academy in London, where he exhibited from 1834. He also took part in exhibitions at the British Institution where he was awarded a prize of 50 pounds in 1829. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1834 and an Academician in 1838. He stopped exhibiting after 1870 and spent the rest of his life travelling.

Museum and Gallery Holdings

Cape Town: River Teign, Devon; In Devonshire; A Guard; sketch

Glasgow: Seascape

Liverpool: Evening in the Meadows

London (Tate Collection): Sea Coast, Sunrise (1834, oil on canvas, exhibited in 1834); Lake in a Park (oil/wood)

London (Victoria and Albert Mus.): Near Redleaf; Harvesting Kelp; View of Windsor; Wooded Valley, Animals; two watercolours

Melbourne: Ben Lawers; River, Mill and Farm

Nottingham (Castle Mus. & AG): Market Barrow and Stream

Sheffield: Landscape with People; Handcart Passing a River

Auction Records

London, 1890: Wooded Landscape, FRF 10,500

London, 1897: Meadows near Canterbury, FRF 13,650

Paris, 16-18 May 1907: Landscape, FRF 2,300

London, 3 April 1909: Riverbanks, GBP 14; Cattle at the Drinking Trough, GBP 35

London, 17 June 1910: Salmon Fishing (1836) GBP 63

New York, 16 and 17 Feb 1911: Landscape, USD 160

London, 13 March 1925: Where the Trout Lie, GBP 48

London, 29 Jan 1926: In the Shade, GBP 147

London, 7 Feb 1947: Salmon Fishing, GBP 57

London, 17 Oct 1950: Ferryboat, GBP 231

London, 2 Dec 1959: Waiting for the Train, GBP 600

London, 11 July 1969: Sussex Landscape, Gns 420

London, 5 March 1971: Wooded River Landscape, Gns 980

London, 13 Dec 1972: Wooded River Landscape, GBP 5,000

London, 5 Oct 1973: Corn Field, Gns 4,800

Copenhagen, 30 April 1974: Summer Landscape, DKK 13,000

London, 16 Nov 1976: Ferry Crossing (1868, oil on canvas, 29½ × 49½ ins/75 × 126 cm) GBP 4,200

London, 8 March 1977: Plymouth Breakwater (1862, oil on canvas, 28 × 36 ins/71 × 91.5 cm) GBP 2,600

London, 19 May 1978: Loch Dochart, Perthshire (oil on card, 18 × 24 ins/45.7 × 61 cm) GBP 1,200

London, 2 Feb 1979: Waiting for the Ferry (1838, oil on canvas, 49¼ × 76¼ ins/125.2 × 193.8 cm) GBP 16,000

London, 5 June 1981: Distant View of Dunbar Castle (1835, oil on canvas, 28¼ × 36½ ins/71.7 × 92.7 cm) GBP 10,000

London, 13 June 1984: Devonshire Scenery (1842, oil on canvas, 46 × 60 ins/117 × 152.5 cm) GBP 13,000

London, 11 June 1985: Preparing the Plough Team (1834, oil on canvas, 24¾ × 30 ins/63 × 76 cm) GBP 4,400

London, 16 May 1986: Peasants at the Well (1866, oil on canvas, 24 × 29 ins/61 × 73.5 cm) GBP 5,500

London, 24 April 1987: Young Fisherman with a Line in a Landscape (1823, oil on canvas, 25 × 30 ins/63.8 × 76.2 cm) GBP 16,000

London, 29 Jan 1988: View of Edge Hill in Warwickshire (1832, oil on card, 14¾ × 20 ins/37.5 × 51 cm, ½ ins/1 cm) GBP 3,850

London, 18 Nov 1988: Coastal Landscape with a Young Fisherman and some Domestic Animals (1834, oil on canvas, 30¼ × 36 ins/76.8 × 91.4 cm) GBP 28,600

Toronto, 30 Nov 1988: Village in the Welsh Hills (oil on canvas, 11½ × 15½ ins/29.5 × 39.5 cm) CAD 1,400

London, 12 July 1989: Grasmere (oil on panel, 11¼ × 16¼ ins/28.5 × 41 cm) GBP 6,600

London, 13 Dec 1989: A Shady Pond (oil on card, 13¾ × 9¾ ins/35 × 25 cm) GBP 660

London, 21 March 1990: The Watermill Stream (1842, oil on canvas, 50 × 37 ins/127 × 94 cm) GBP 9,350

London, 11 July 1990: The Reapers (1846, oil on canvas, 30¾ × 47 ins/78 × 119.5 cm) GBP 23,100

London, 15 Nov 1991: Freshwater Fish on the Bank of an English River (1834, 29 × 40 ins/73.6 × 101.6 cm) GBP 11,000

London, 8 April 1992: Fulford Park in Exeter, Devon (1839, oil on canvas, 27½ × 35½ ins/70 × 90 cm) GBP 8,800

Penrith, 13 Sept 1994: Rabbit Hunt (oil on canvas, 26 × 38¼ ins/66 × 97 cm) GBP 6,555

New York, 12 Oct 1994: Salmon Fishing (oil on canvas, 27¾ × 36¼ ins/70.5 × 92.1 cm) USD 8,050

London, 12 July 1995: Gamekeeper (oil on panel, 15½ × 18 ins/39.5 × 46 cm) GBP 7,475

London, 8 Nov 1995: Ostlers (oil on panel, 15½ × 18 ins/39.5 × 46 cm) GBP 4,370

London, 7 Nov 1996: Calm (1865, oil on canvas, 27¾ × 36 ins/70.5 × 91.4 cm) GBP 4,600

Paris, 4 Feb 1998: View of the Breakwater at Plymouth (1862, oil on canvas, 28 × 36 ins/71 × 91.5 cm) FRF 56,000

London, 11 May 1999: Cattle in Landscape at Dusk (1860, oil on canvas, after Thomas Sidney Cooper, 37 × 60 ins/95 × 152 cm) GBP 3,400

Exeter, 23 June 1999: Extensive Highland Landscape (1853, oil on canvas, 45 × 72 ins/114 × 182 cm) GBP 8,500

Leeds, 14 Nov 2000: Gentleman Fishing in Stream (oil on board, oval, 8 × 6 ins/21 × 14 cm) GBP 1,000

London, 30 Nov 2000: Gypsy Tent (oil on panel, 8 × 12 ins/20 × 30 cm) GBP 3,100

London, 9 April 2001: View of Ben More Looking up Glen Dochart (1851, oil on canvas, 38 × 52 ins/97 × 132 cm) GBP 9,500

London, 30 Nov 2001: My Cottage Near the Brook, River Landscape with Mill and Fishermen (1859, oil on canvas, 28 × 36 ins/71 × 91 cm) GBP 22,000

London, 11 June 2002: Salmon Poachers Discovered (1867, oil on canvas, 34 × 44 ins/87 × 113 cm) GBP 14,000

London, 31 Oct 2002: Scottish Wooded River Landscape with Anglers on the Rocks (1862, oil on canvas, 28 × 36 ins/70 × 91 cm) GBP 7,500

Newcastle, 18 March 2003: Pont du Gard (oil on canvas, 44 × 72 ins/113 × 182 cm) GBP 6,800

London, 10 June 2003: Sketch of the New Bridge built by Lord Lynedoch. Saw Mill. Swiss Bridge. Angler on a Bridge (1838, oil on board, set of four, 10 × 14 ins/25 × 35 cm) GBP 14,000

London, 27 May 2004: Trout Stream (oil on board, 17 × 21 ins/44 × 53 cm) GBP 3,500

London, 11 June 2004: Estuary Scene with Figures Unloading a Ferry (1834, oil on canvas, 31 × 45 ins/79 × 114 cm) GBP 11,000