Mortimer Luddington Menpes RI, RBA, RE (British, 1855-1938) Burmese village (in a fluted panel frame) image 1

Lot 51

Mortimer Luddington Menpes RI, RBA, RE
(British, 1855-1938)
Burmese village

19th Century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art

2 March 2016, 14:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £4,375 inc. premium

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Mortimer Luddington Menpes RI, RBA, RE (British, 1855-1938)

Burmese village
signed 'Mortimer.Menpes.' (lower right), inscribed 'Burma' on reverse
oil on board
15.9 x 17.5cm (6 1/4 x 6 7/8in).
in a fluted panel frame

Footnotes

Provenance
with Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, London
J.S.Forbes Esq.
with J.L.W. Bird Fine Art Dealer, London
Private collection, UK

Exhibited
London, Royal Geographical Society, July 1890
London, Dowdeswell Galleries, Paintings, Drawings, Etchings and Diamond Points on Ivory of India, Burma and Cashmere, 18 April-23 May 1891, no.115 (this exhibition contained 121 paintings, 30 pencil drawings, 12 drypoints and 11 diamond prints on ivory)
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 14 June-7 September 2014

Literature
Julie Robinson, Adelaide, The World of Mortimer Menpes, 2014, illustrated in colour p.81

Painted 1889-90.

The fluted panel frame was made in Japan then gilded in London.

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