Lot 1537
HENRY WILLIAM BANKS DAVIS, RA (1833-1914)
COW AND CALF
Signed and dated 1879, oil on canvas
84.5 x 150.5cm.
Exhibited: probably London, The Royal Academy, 1879, no.615 (`Wanderers`)
Provenance: The Rt. Hon. Sir Ronald Cross, MP (1896-1968, a minister in Churchill's war cabinet, MP for the constituencies of Rossendale and Ormskirk and Governor of Tasmania); thence by descent in his family. Also formerly in the collection of Marchioness of Downshire.
* Sir Ronald believed this to be a view on the Lancashire coast near Morecambe Bay.
