Shaftesbury, or Lost and Found
William MacDuff
- Art Funded
- 1993
- Dimensions
- 47 x 41 cm
- Vendor
- Christopher Wood
This 'genre' scene was painted as a tribute to the philanthropic work of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, whose portrait in the shop window is pointed out to a street urchin by a shoe black, the plight of whom was a cause particularly associated with Lord Shaftesbury.
Provenance
Henry Graves probably commissioned the painting ; Mrs Viva King since 1937; with the Christopher Wood Gallery, 1979; Anthony Brodie; with the Christopher Wood gallery.