18th Mar, 2023 9:30 GMT/BST
Thomas Sidney Cooper RA (1803-1902)
"The Rustic Footbath"
Signed and dated 1883, oil on panel, 40cm by 60cm
Provenance: Oakham Galleries Ltd., London; Sotheby's London, Victorian & Edwardian Pictures, November 25th 2005, Lot 348
Exhibited: The Royal Academy, London, 1883, no.441
Sold for £5,500
Estimated at £3,000 - £5,000
Cleaned and revarnished. Panel seemingly sound and stable. Light surface dirt and discoloured varnish now in evidence. Minor retouching along top edge and mostly upper 50% of left hand side edge. Further minor retouching to lower edge left hand side third in the main. Minor retouching to right hand side edge, mostly upper 50%. A small amount of essentially fine retouches within sky to right hand side and other fine and scattered retouches to sky mostly contained within upper left hand corner. Delicate retouching to the top of the larger stone nearest foreground and further very fine retouches presumably to old flaked paint just above lower edge right hand side. Some very fine outlining to the figure. Otherwise in a broadly good and stable state of preservation.
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