Francis Danby
Landscape: Ulysses at the court of Alcinous, going to the athletic games instituted in honour of his visit
Francis Danby
Landscape: Ulysses at the court of Alcinous, going to the athletic games instituted in honour of his visit
130.6 x 183.3 cmOil on canvas
Signed lower left: F.DANBY
Sale Bonhams, London, 17 December 2020
Provenance
Provenance
Painted for Joseph Gillott
His sale, Christie's, London, 19 April 1872, lot 126 (as The Arrival of Aeneas)
Collection of Thomas Pemberton
His sale, Christie's, London, 30 April 1874, lot 78 (as Aeneas Witnessing the games), bought together with other Danby works in this sale by
J. Watson of Warley Hall, Birmingham, who moved to Berwick House, Shrewsbury in 1879, and by descent to the present owner
Sale Bonhams, London, 17 December 2020, nr. 20 (bought in)