Friday, August 13, 2010

Herbert William Weekes - An appeal to the benevolent



Price Realized £12,000

signed 'W. Weekes' (lower right)
oil on canvas, unframed
15 x 20 in. (38.1 x 50.8 cm.)

Herbert William Weekes came from an artistic family and from 1865 exhibited extensively, including at the Royal Academy. He specialised in humorous pictures of animals and as the present work shows they were often posed in human situations.

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