Laura Adeline Lyall Muntz (1860-1930) - A Little Girl

A Little Girl

oil on canvas
114.3 cms x 76.8 cms (45 ins x 30.25 ins)
Signed and dated 1905 lower right
made in 1905
Lot offered for sale by Cowley Abbott, Toronto at the auction event "Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian Art" held on Thu, Dec 1, 2022.
Lot 41075
Estimate: CAD $40,000 - $60,000
Realised: CAD $43,200

Lot description - from the online catalogue*

Provenance:
The Artist

Ellen Regan McCluskey, Long Island, New York & Palm Beach, Florida

By descent to a Private Collection, Palm Beach, Florida

Private Collection, Massachusetts

Exhibitions:
"Eightieth Annual Exhibition", National Academy of Design, New York, 2-30 January 1905, no. 259 as "A Little Girl"
Notes:
Born at Radford, Warwickshire, England, the daughter of Eugene Gustavus Muntz, she came to Canada as a child with her family and they settled on a farm in the backwoods of the Muskoka District. She didn't begin formal art training until the age of twenty-three. She became a school teacher in Hamilton, Ontario, and in her spare hours took art classes.
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
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A Little Girl by artist Laura Adeline Lyall Muntz