Essex Sails for Cádiz

成交價美元 169,000

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Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)

Essex Sails for Cádiz

成交價美元 169,000

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Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
Essex Sails for Cádiz
signed 'N.C. Wyeth' (lower right)
oil on canvas
40 x 34¼ in. (101.6 x 87 cm.)
Painted in 1928.

Treadway Toomey Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2 March 2003, lot 693.
Private collection.

L. Strachey, "Elizabeth and Essex," in Ladies' Home Journal, October 1928, p. 9, illustrated.
D. Allen and D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 263.

拍品專文

The present work was originally painted as an illustration for Lytton Stachey's "Elizabeth and Essex," a serial published in . depicts Robert Devereux, the 2nd Earl of Essex in the foreground, with several of his crew aboard his ship, The Essex. Devereux was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I of England and undertook many military and navy ventures on her behalf, most prominently the capture of Cádiz in southwestern Spain in 1596.

This painting is I.1078 in the forthcoming and is included in the database that is being compiled by the Brandywine River Museum and Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.