Property of a Distinguished Collector

FOLLOWER OF SIR FREDERIC LEIGHTON
Portrait of a girl reading
oil on canvas
46.3 x 31.2 cm (18 1/4 x 12 1/4 in)


PROVENANCE:
Sir Harry Veitch, bequeathed by in 1924 to The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; sale, Christie's, London, 22 October 1954, lot 89
Major the Hon. John Stourton
Sale, Christie's, London, 15 October 1976, lot 69
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

LITERATURE:
R. & L. Ormond, Lord Leighton, London, 1975, pp. 42 & 152, no. 50, as untraced.

The present lot had not been seen by the expert on Leighton Richard Ormond when he published his 1975 catalogue raisonné. However, when he saw the work in 1976 and again recently he confirmed that the work is by a follower of Leighton.