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Lot 167

Fred Roe
(British, 1865-1947)
'Study for Man-at-Arms', circa 1893 (framed and glazed)

20 April 2011, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Fred Roe (British, 1865-1947)

'Study for Man-at-Arms', circa 1893
signed 'Fred Roe' (lower left), inscribed 'Study for Man-at-Arms in The Trial of Joan of Arc' (upper right), pen, ink and watercolour
66.5 cm. x 34.5cm (framed and glazed)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Frederic Midgley Collection, Manchester

Offered with a typed note signed by the artist's son, F. Gordon Roe, dated 1 December 1971 and reading 'This was painted when the artist was preparing his picture MARTYRDOM. JOAN OF ARC ON HER WAY TO EXECUTION (1905/6; Royal Academy; re-touched 1907 before going to the Paris Salon in that year). The object of the study was simply to obtain a realistic impression, regardless of period, of a knight in his plates. The correctly accoutred mounted figure which in due course appeared in the background of MARTYRDOM is entirely different. Later, the Artist finished the study, adding a background, for exhibition at the R.B.A., with the romantic title LORD OF THE ISLES, which was not intended to have any more than a purely poetic significance. The study was in the Artist's studio at the time of his death, when it passed to his son, F. Gordon Roe, F.S.A., writer of this memorandum'

The finished work was exhibited at the Royal Academy and in Manchester in 1893

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