FREDERIC JAMES SHIELDS (BRITISH 1833-1911)
A study for "One Of Our Breadwatchers", c. 1865
Signed F.J.Shields (lower left).
watercolour and gouache
17.8 x 26 cm

PROVENANCE:
Kenneth A. Lohf, New York.
By descent to Paul Palmer, partner of the above (2002) and his descendants.
Leslie Hindman Inc., USA, 27.09 2022, Lot 5.

LITERATURE:
Ernestine Mills, The Life and Letters of Frederic Shields (London, 1912), pp. 109-110.

The present work a study for the painting now in the Manchester Art Gallery (c. 1866), inv. 1917.674.