Portrait of Winnifred (circa 1888)
74.9 cms x 52.7 cms (29.5 ins x 20.75 ins)
Signed and inscribed "Toronto" lower right
Lot offered for sale by Cowley Abbott, Toronto at the auction event "Artwork from an Important Private Collection" held on Thu, Dec 1, 2022.
Lot 41568
Lot 41568
Estimate: CAD $5,000 - $7,000
Realised: CAD $6,600
Realised: CAD $6,600
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Private Collection
Exhibitions:
"Our Children: Reflections of Childhood in Historical Canadian Art", Varley Art Gallery, Markham, 13 April-23 June 2019
Notes:
William Cutts was largely a self‒taught painter, born of British parents in Allahabad, India. He moved to England and studied painting for a short period. Here he was greatly influenced by European artistic techniques, copying the Old Masters and their traditional painting conventions. In 1870 Cutts emigrated to Canada, residing in Stratford, Ontario with his mother and stepfather before settling in Toronto. Portraiture was a highly popular painting form in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from staged commissions to leisure portraits. Cutts took various portrait commissions and continued to grow as a professional painter in Canadian artistic circles. He would soon join the newly founded Royal Canadian Academy and the Ontario Society of Artists‒marked, signs of his development as an important player in the emerging circle of professional Canadian artists.
Private Collection
Exhibitions:
"Our Children: Reflections of Childhood in Historical Canadian Art", Varley Art Gallery, Markham, 13 April-23 June 2019
Notes:
William Cutts was largely a self‒taught painter, born of British parents in Allahabad, India. He moved to England and studied painting for a short period. Here he was greatly influenced by European artistic techniques, copying the Old Masters and their traditional painting conventions. In 1870 Cutts emigrated to Canada, residing in Stratford, Ontario with his mother and stepfather before settling in Toronto. Portraiture was a highly popular painting form in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from staged commissions to leisure portraits. Cutts took various portrait commissions and continued to grow as a professional painter in Canadian artistic circles. He would soon join the newly founded Royal Canadian Academy and the Ontario Society of Artists‒marked, signs of his development as an important player in the emerging circle of professional Canadian artists.
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Cowley Abbott auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Cowley Abbott auction house for permission to use.