Lot 140
FREDERIC MARLETT BELL-SMITH, O.S.A., R.C.A.
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Literature:
Roger Boulet, Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith (1846-1923), Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1977, page 81, plate 51 for a closely related oil of this subject, reproduced.
Note:
On September 23, 1896, Queen Victoria surpassed her father George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history. Her diamond jubilee, which occurred the following year, was therefore cause for enormous celebration and pageantry. Bell-Smith went to Britain for the occasion in order to capture in paint this historic moment. A watercolour of this subject was exhibited by him at the Royal Canadian Academy annual exhibition in Toronto in 1898.