Frederic, Lord Leighton, PRA (British, 1830-1896) Portrait of Henry Evans Gordon

Frederic, Lord Leighton, PRA (British, 1830-1896) Portrait of Henry Evans Gordon oil on canvas 61 x 51cm (24 x 20in). Footnotes: Provenance: Mrs Henry Evans Gordon. Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 7 January 1970, lot 8. Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 2 November 1990, lot 288. Exhibited: London, Grosvenor Gallery, Summer Exhibition , 1877, no. 31. London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Late Lord Leighton of Stretton , Winter 1897, no. 42. Literature: Times , 1 May 1877, p. 10. E. Rhys, Sir Frederic Leighton, Bart., PRA, London, 1895, p. 69. E. Rhys, Frederic, Lord Leighton, London, 1898, pp. 28-9, 87. E. Staley, Lord Leighton of Stretton, PRA, London, 1906, p. 239. Mrs Russell Barrington, The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton, London, 1906, vol. 2, p. 387. L. and R. Ormond, Lord Leighton, New Haven and London, 1975, pp. 121, 163, no. 242. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com