NEAR SHAW'S BRIDGE and HILLSBOROUGH, COUNTY DOWN (A PAIR) William Conor RHA RUA ROI (1881-1968)
Signature: signed upper left and lower left respectively; each with original inscribed labels on reverse Medium: watercolour Dimensions: 28 by 36cm., 11 by 14.2in. Provenance: Purchased from the artist by Dr J.C. Smyth, Belfast (original receipt of sale included with lot); Family of Dr Smyth, from whom acquired by the present owner Accompanied by a framed signed manuscript letter from Conor to Dr Smyth, dated 12 August 1935, and a receipt for the sum of 10 guineas, the original amount paid for the two watercolours. Dr Smyth was ... a Belfast dentist who lived in Wellington Park in Belfast, only three hundred metres from Conor’s studio. Dr Smyth’s only son, the late Major Frazer Smyth, inherited the Wellington Park house and its contents, including the pair of Conor watercolours. In 1980 he and his wife sold the house and moved to Kesh, Co. Fermanagh. The present owner was a friend of Frazer Smith and purchased the pair of watercolours at the time of the move more
NEAR SHAW'S BRIDGE and HILLSBOROUGH, COUNTY DOWN (A PAIR) William Conor RHA RUA ROI (1881-1968)
Signature: signed upper left and lower left respectively; each with original inscribed labels on reverse Medium: watercolour Dimensions: 28 by 36cm., 11 by 14.2in. Provenance: Purchased from the artist by Dr J.C. Smyth, Belfast (original receipt of sale included with lot); Family of Dr Smyth, from whom acquired by the present owner Accompanied by a framed signed manuscript letter from Conor to Dr Smyth, dated 12 August 1935, and a receipt for the sum of 10 guineas, the original amount paid for the two watercolours. Dr Smyth was ... a Belfast dentist who lived in Wellington Park in Belfast, only three hundred metres from Conor’s studio. Dr Smyth’s only son, the late Major Frazer Smyth, inherited the Wellington Park house and its contents, including the pair of Conor watercolours. In 1980 he and his wife sold the house and moved to Kesh, Co. Fermanagh. The present owner was a friend of Frazer Smith and purchased the pair of watercolours at the time of the move more
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