WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (American, 1833-1905) English Country Road sight size...

WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (American, 1833-1905)
English Country Road
signed and dated 'WMT. Richards 1880' (lower right); label from Questrom Fine Art, New York (affixed to the backing board)
watercolor and gouache on paper, framed and under glass
sight size 24.8 x 33.7 cm (9 3/4 x 13 1/4 in).
framed 49.0 x 59.5 x 7.5 cm (19 5/16 x 23 3/8 x 3 in).
Provenance
Private collection, Germantown, Pennsylvania.
William G. Grange (acquired from the previous, 1916).
William Vareika Fine Arts, Newport, Rhode Island.
A private collection (acquired from the previous, 1989).
Sale, Christie's, New York, September 25, 2012, lot 48, from the collection of the previous.
William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York.
The Louis-Dreyfus Family Collections (from the estate of the previous, 2016).
A private New York collection, New York.
Questroyal Gallery, New York.
The collection of Eric van Rooy (acquired from the previous, 2022).

N.B.
Gérard C. Louis-Dreyfus (1932-2016), also known as William Louis-Dreyfus, was a billionaire businessman and the father of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus. He amassed an extensive art collection throughout his life, of which the present picture was a part.