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Lot 84

Walter Langley, RI
(British, 1852-1922)
News of the Fleet

28 September 2016, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £18,750 inc. premium

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Walter Langley, RI (British, 1852-1922)

News of the Fleet
signed 'W.LANGLEY' (lower left)
watercolour
51.5 x 67.5cm (20 1/4 x 26 9/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Williams, April 1901, sold for £35 (net) directly from the artist
Private collection, UK

Literature
R. Langley, Walter Langley, Pioneer of the Newlyn Art Colony, Bristol 1997, p.168

To be sold with a copy of a letter to a previous owner from the artist's grandson, Roger Langley, tracing the painting to 1901, when a picture of this title was listed in the artist's records but not exhibited.

We are grateful to Roger Langley for confirming the attribution to Walter Langley on the basis of photographs.

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