CHARLES WILLIAM DAY (BRITISH active 1815-1859)
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY (BRITISH active 1815-1859)
STUDY FOR AN EGYPTIAN MAN AND WOMAN
inscribed and dated at Cairo .1838 upper right and inscribed Egyptian / woman lower right
watercolour over pencil on paper
12.4 x 7.2cm (29 x 23cm framed)
Property of a Lady, Marylebone
Provenance
William Drummond, Covent Garden Gallery Ltd, London
Purchased from the above by the present owner in 1995
A keen miniaturist, Day travelled widely, including through the Middle East. As the present lot and the following two lots confirm he visited Egypt in 1838. From 1846-51 he lived in the West Indies, travelling throughout the islands including to Barbados, St. Vincent, Bequia, Grenada, Trinidad, St. Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, Dominica, Nevis, Barbuda and Antigua and also spent time in Boston, Massachusetts. On his return to England he published Five Years Residence in the West Indies in 1852. The same year he also published the influential primer The Art of Miniature Painting: Comprising instructions necessary for the acquirement of that art which enjoyed multiple editions. He exhibited at the Royal Academy London from 1821 to 1854 and at the Boston Athenaeum in 1844.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY (BRITISH active 1815-1859)
STUDY FOR AN EGYPTIAN MAN AND WOMAN
inscribed and dated at Cairo .1838 upper right and inscribed Egyptian / woman lower right
watercolour over pencil on paper
12.4 x 7.2cm (29 x 23cm framed)
Property of a Lady, Marylebone
Provenance
William Drummond, Covent Garden Gallery Ltd, London
Purchased from the above by the present owner in 1995
A keen miniaturist, Day travelled widely, including through the Middle East. As the present lot and the following two lots confirm he visited Egypt in 1838. From 1846-51 he lived in the West Indies, travelling throughout the islands including to Barbados, St. Vincent, Bequia, Grenada, Trinidad, St. Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, Dominica, Nevis, Barbuda and Antigua and also spent time in Boston, Massachusetts. On his return to England he published Five Years Residence in the West Indies in 1852. The same year he also published the influential primer The Art of Miniature Painting: Comprising instructions necessary for the acquirement of that art which enjoyed multiple editions. He exhibited at the Royal Academy London from 1821 to 1854 and at the Boston Athenaeum in 1844.
