Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (1829-1904) Portrait of Lewis Flower (1856-1902)

Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (1829-1904)

Portrait of Lewis Flower (1856-1902), bust-length

Signed, titled and dated 1886

Coloured chalks and pencil on green paper

68 x 50.5cm; 26¾ x 19¾in

Provenance:

Lewis Flower;
And by descent

Literature:

Betty Elzea, Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné (Suffolk, Antique Collectors' Club, 2001), p.273, no. 4.52

Exhibited:

Brighton, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery; Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, Frederick Sandys 1829-1904, 1974, no.123c

Lewis Flower was the brother of Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea (1843-1907), who probably once owned lot 511. Cyril also sat for Frederick Sandys in 1872.