Lot 1642
WILLIAM LEIGHTON LEITCH (1804-1883)
OSBORNE HOUSE FROM THE GARDEN, ISLE OF WIGHT
With studio stamp, watercolour and pencil
31 x 45.5cm.
Provenance: London, Christies, the Artist's Studio sale, March 13th-17th 1884 (13 gns.); London, The Fine Art Society Ltd, April 1966; The Collection of Hermione Hobhouse, author of Prince Albert: His Life and Work, 1983
Exhibited: Glasgow International Exhibition, 1888
* Osborne House was built between 1845 and 1851 under Prince Albert's direction, consciously in the style of an Italianate palazzo. Leitch gave lessons in watercolour drawing to the Queen and some of the Royal children at Osborne
