Peter Rees
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Lot 51
Mortimer Luddington Menpes RI, RBA, RE
(British, 1855-1938)
Burmese village
2 March 2016, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £4,375 inc. premium
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Mortimer Luddington Menpes RI, RBA, RE (British, 1855-1938)
Burmese village
signed 'Mortimer.Menpes.' (lower right), inscribed 'Burma' on reverse
oil on board
15.9 x 17.5cm (6 1/4 x 6 7/8in).
in a fluted panel frame
signed 'Mortimer.Menpes.' (lower right), inscribed 'Burma' on reverse
oil on board
15.9 x 17.5cm (6 1/4 x 6 7/8in).
in a fluted panel frame
Footnotes
Provenance
with Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, London
J.S.Forbes Esq.
with J.L.W. Bird Fine Art Dealer, London
Private collection, UK
Exhibited
London, Royal Geographical Society, July 1890
London, Dowdeswell Galleries, Paintings, Drawings, Etchings and Diamond Points on Ivory of India, Burma and Cashmere, 18 April-23 May 1891, no.115 (this exhibition contained 121 paintings, 30 pencil drawings, 12 drypoints and 11 diamond prints on ivory)
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 14 June-7 September 2014
Literature
Julie Robinson, Adelaide, The World of Mortimer Menpes, 2014, illustrated in colour p.81
Painted 1889-90.
The fluted panel frame was made in Japan then gilded in London.