Description
Country Homes Antiques Scotland est1985
SOLD Frederick Richard Lee. R.A. Oil Painting
Frederick Richard Lee. R.A. Title: “Playing in the stream at the old mill”
Signature: Signed lower left & dated 1850
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 18 x 24 inches unframed 25 x 31 framed
Condition: Excellent
Frederick Richard Lee started off in the services and fought one campaign in Holland. He then studied at the Royal Academy in London, where he exhibited from 1834. He also took part in exhibitions at the British Institution where he was awarded a prize of 50 pounds in 1829. Elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1834 and an Academician in 1838 stopped exhibiting after 1870 and spent the rest of his life travelling.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Cape Town: River Teign, Devon; In Devonshire; A Guard; sketch
Glasgow: Seascape
Liverpool: Evening in the Meadows
London (Tate Collection): Sea Coast, Sunrise (1834, oil on canvas, exhibited in 1834); Lake in a Park (oil/wood)
London (Victoria and Albert Mus.): Near Redleaf; Harvesting Kelp; View of Windsor; Wooded Valley, Animals; two watercolours
Melbourne: Ben Lawers; River, Mill and Farm
Nottingham (Castle Mus. & AG): Market Barrow and Stream
Sheffield: Landscape with People; Handcart Passing a River
Recent Auction Records
London, 30 Nov 2000: Gypsy Tent (oil on panel, 8 × 12 ins/20 × 30 cm) GBP 3,100
London, 9 April 2001: View of Ben More Looking up Glen Dochart (1851, oil on canvas, 38 × 52 ins/97 × 132 cm) GBP 9,500
London, 30 Nov 2001: My Cottage Near the Brook, River Landscape with Mill and Fishermen (1859, oil on canvas, 28 × 36 ins/71 × 91 cm) GBP 22,000
London, 11 June 2002: Salmon Poachers Discovered (1867, oil on canvas, 34 × 44 ins/87 × 113 cm) GBP 14,000
London, 31 Oct 2002: Scottish Wooded River Landscape with Anglers on the Rocks (1862, oil on canvas, 28 × 36 ins/70 × 91 cm) GBP 7,500
Newcastle, 18 March 2003: Pont du Gard (oil on canvas, 44 × 72 ins/113 × 182 cm) GBP 6,800
London, 10 June 2003: Sketch of the New Bridge built by Lord Lynedoch. Saw Mill. Swiss Bridge. Angler on a Bridge (1838, oil on board, set of four, 10 × 14 ins/25 × 35 cm) GBP 14,000
London, 27 May 2004: Trout Stream (oil on board, 17 × 21 ins/44 × 53 cm) GBP 3,500
London, 11 June 2004: Estuary Scene with Figures Unloading a Ferry (1834, oil on canvas, 31 × 45 ins/79 × 114 cm) GBP 11,000
At Auction
PRICE SOLD
€ 6,582 EUR
£ 5,919 GBP
€ 2,495 EUR
£ 2,037 GBP
MAY 2014
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PRICE SOLD
€ 14,259 EUR
£ 11,250 GBP
MARCH 2016 London
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Est: £6,000 – £8,000