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LOT 56

Lot 56

WILLIAM HENRY EDWARD NAPIER (1829 - 1894)

WILLIAM HENRY EDWARD NAPIER (1829 - 1894)
Lot 56 Details
WILLIAM HENRY EDWARD NAPIER (1829 - 1894), Canadian

NAMAKAN, STURGEON RIVER, 1857

watercolour
titled and dated
Sheet 8 ins x 12 ins; 20.3 cms x 30.5 cms

Estimate $3,000-$5,000

Realised: $2,880
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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WILLIAM HENRY EDWARD NAPIER (1829 - 1894)
  • WILLIAM HENRY EDWARD NAPIER (1829 - 1894)
  • WILLIAM HENRY EDWARD NAPIER (1829 - 1894)
  • WILLIAM HENRY EDWARD NAPIER (1829 - 1894)
Provenance:

Collection of the artist, in Canada since 1857 when this lot was executed. Thence the collection travelled to Edinburgh, Scotland when Napier left Canada in 1870, remaining in Edinburgh until his death in 1894.
By descent to the artist’s grandson, Alexander Napier Chinnery-Haldane of “Gleneagles”, Perthshire, Scotland
Sotheby & Co., Canada Ltd., 21 - 22 October, 1974, “The Napier Collection”
The Estate of John M. Rogers, Toronto
By descent to the grandsons of John M. Rogers, Toronto

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