Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this Victorian Landscape Oil Painting to the Victorian era.
A beautiful large signed oil on canvas by the English landscape painter Frederick Richard Lee R.A.
The painting dates to around 1830 and has been relined around 1900.
Title: “The Waterfall”
Signature: Signed lower right
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 16 x 24 inches unframed
Condition: Relined c. 1900
Born 10 June 1798, in Barnstaple; died 4 June 1879, in the Cape Colony.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman. Hunting scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures, seascapes.
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. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1834 and an Academician in 1838. He 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
Auction Records
London, 1890: Wooded Landscape, FRF 10,500
London, 1897: Meadows near Canterbury, FRF 13,650
Paris, 16-18 May 1907: Landscape, FRF 2,300
London, 3 April 1909: Riverbanks, GBP 14; Cattle at the Drinking Trough, GBP 35
London, 17 June 1910: Salmon Fishing (1836) GBP 63
New York, 16 and 17 Feb 1911: Landscape, USD 160
London, 13 March 1925: Where the Trout Lie, GBP 48
London, 29 Jan 1926: In the Shade, GBP 147
London, 7 Feb 1947: Salmon Fishing, GBP 57
London, 17 Oct 1950: Ferryboat, GBP 231
London, 2 Dec 1959: Waiting for the Train, GBP 600
London, 11 July 1969: Sussex Landscape, Gns 420
London, 5 March 1971: Wooded River Landscape, Gns 980
London, 13 Dec 1972: Wooded River Landscape, GBP 5,000
London, 5 Oct 1973: Corn Field, Gns 4,800
Copenhagen, 30 April 1974: Summer Landscape, DKK 13,000
London, 16 Nov 1976: Ferry Crossing (1868, oil on canvas, 29½ × 49½ ins/75 × 126 cm) GBP 4,200
London, 8 March 1977: Plymouth Breakwater (1862, oil on canvas, 28 × 36 ins/71 × 91.5 cm) GBP 2,600
London, 19 May 1978: Loch Dochart, Perthshire (oil on card, 18 × 24 ins/45.7 × 61 cm) GBP 1,200
London, 2 Feb 1979: Waiting for the Ferry (1838, oil on canvas, 49¼ × 76¼ ins/125.2 × 193.8 cm) GBP 16,000
London, 5 June 1981: Distant View of Dunbar Castle (1835, oil on canvas, 28¼ × 36½ ins/71.7 × 92.7 cm) GBP 10,000
London, 13 June 1984: Devonshire Scenery (1842, oil on canvas, 46 × 60 ins/117 × 152.5 cm) GBP 13,000
London, 11 June 1985: Preparing the Plough Team (1834, oil on canvas, 24¾ × 30 ins/63 × 76 cm) GBP 4,400
London, 16 May 1986: Peasants at the Well (1866, oil on canvas, 24 × 29 ins/61 × 73.5 cm) GBP 5,500
London, 24 April 1987: Young Fisherman with a Line in a Landscape (1823, oil on canvas, 25 × 30 ins/63.8 × 76.2 cm) GBP 16,000
London, 29 Jan 1988: View of Edge Hill in Warwickshire (1832, oil on card, 14¾ × 20 ins/37.5 × 51 cm, ½ ins/1 cm) GBP 3,850
London, 18 Nov 1988: Coastal Landscape with a Young Fisherman and some Domestic Animals (1834, oil on canvas, 30¼ × 3
Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this Victorian Landscape Oil Painting to the Victorian era.
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Frederick Richard Lee. RA. Oil painting
