John Brett, A.R.A.

The Anglesea Sand Hills Looking Over the Estuary

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December 15, 05:29 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

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Property of a Lady

John Brett, A.R.A.

British

1831 - 1902

The Anglesea Sand Hills Looking Over the Estuary

signed and dated John Brett 1876 lower left and signed and inscribed J Brett / 38 Harley Street on the reverse and indistinctly inscribed with title on remnants of a label

oil on canvas

Unframed: 35.5 by 61cm., 14 by 24in.

Framed: 60 by 85.8cm., 23¼ by 33¾in.

Agnew & Sons, London
Sale: Christie's, London, 1 June 1984, lot 1

Cardiff, National Museums & Gallery Cardiff, John Brett: A Pre-Raphaelite on the shores of Wales, 14 August - 25 November 2001, no. 14, p. 69, illustrated in the catalogue, p. 68, catalogued

Christiana Payne and Charles Brett, John Brett: Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 219, no. 771, illustrated

The view of the present work is from Newborough Warren on the southern tip of Anglesey looking across the entrance of the Menai Strait towards Yr Eifl on the north Lleyn peninsula. In 1875 Brett spent three months drawing and painting views from Anglesey before returning to his studio at 38 Harley Street.