Alfred W. Elmore

Alfred Elmore, R.A. (Clonakilty, Co. Cork 1815-1881London) Study of a male nude observed from the right, his left armoutstretched (illustrated); and Life study of a male nude the second signed and inscribed 'Life Study/Alfred Elmore RA.'(lower right) pencil, on paper, unframed 16 x 10¾ in. (40.6 x 27.3 cm.) and smaller; and Five unframedstudies of male and female nudes and carriage horses, all by thesame hand (7)

Signed on reverse: Elmore PROVENANCE Sotheby's, date not known, where bought by Sir David Scott as part of a lot with William Edward Frost's Terpsichore (lot 49 of this sale) LITERATURE AND REFERENCES ENGRAVED: Edward Francis Finden, undated (mid 19th century) CATALOGUE NOTE 'Then remember, wherever your goblet is crown'd, Through this world whether eastward or westward you roam, When a cup to the smile of dear woman goes round, Oh! remember the smile which adorns her at home.' We may roam though this world, from Irish Melodies by Thomas Moore Alfred Elmore was born at Clonakilty in County Cork, the son of an army surgeon. In 1833 he entered the Royal Academy schools in London, and the following year he exhibited for the first time at the Academy. Many of his early subjects were religious, and painted in a style that reflected his knowledge of paintings by the old masters which he studied in the course of successive visits to France, German and Italy. He lived for a while in Munich, and remained in Rome for as long as two years in the early 1840s. In later years he turned principally to historical and literary subjects, which were on frequent occasions engraved. Elmore was encountered by Frederic Leighton in 1851, on the occasion of Leighton's visiting London. The young artist was impressed by Elmore's art, which he understood as owing much to Continental example, and which seemed to him to indicate that English art was moving towards a more serious and high minded purpose. The more informal paintings that Elmore undertook, such as the present, intended perhaps as 'fancy subjects', are analogous to the figurative subjects without ostensible narrative that Leighton undertook from the late 1850s onwards. It may be that Elmore was in turn influenced by Leighton; the dark haired model in the present painting bears a marked resemblance to the model Nanna Risi, the mistress of Anselm Feuerbach, whom Leighton represented in a series of works in 1859. The present painting appears not to have been exhibited and was perhaps made expressly to provide the basis for Finden's engraving.

- ALFRED W. ELMORE England 1815-1881 The Vitness Signerad med monogram och daterad 1870. Olja på pannå, 40 x 30 cm. Signed with monogram and dated. Oil on panel. UTSTÄLLD: County Borough of Oldham, Loan Exhibition of Pictures. Estimate: SEK 15 000-20 000 (EUR 1 580-2 100) Unsold

measurements 36 by 26 in. 91.4 by 66 cm. description artist's nationality british material/medium oil on canvas exhibited london, royal academy, 1871, according to the plaque on the frame published condition note canvas not lined. the surface is in generally good condition and with clean, glossy varnish; retouches visible along a straight, vertical line in the lower right quadrant. under ultraviolet light: masking varnish; the entire face appears to be repainted, as well as large areas on chest and dress; following initials 'eys' have been inscribed with pen, invisibly to the naked eye, at the lower right edge and the lower right corner. this lot is sold subject to sotheby's conditions of sale. as stated in the conditions, all lots are sold on an "as is" basis. prospective bidders should review the conditions and buying at auction guide.

Alfred W. Elmore, R.A. (1815-1881) Mary Queen of Scots and Christopher Norton at Bolton Castle signed 'A Elmore' (lower right) oil on canvas laid down on board 47½ x 71 in. (120.6 x 180.4 cm.) Exhibited London, Royal Academy, 1875, No.211. Lot Notes As with many of the pictures that Alfred Elmore exhibited at the Royal Academy he included an elaborated title in the form of a brief narrative. Elmores decribes the present picture thus 'One day when the Queen of Scots, in winter, had been sitting at the window-side, knitting of a work-and after the board was covered, she rose and went to the fireside, and, making haste to have the work finished, would not lay it away, but worked at it the time she was warming herself .... called to me to hold her work, who was looking at my Lord Scrope and Sir Francis Knollys playing chess. I went, thinking I had deserved no blame, and that it should not have become me to have refused to do it, my Lady Scrope standing there, and many gentlemen in the chamber.... Two years later the poor youth was under the knife of the executioner at Tyburn.'