Lot 68 Sir Walter Frederick Osborne

Walter Frederick Osborne RHA, 1859-1903 FEEDING TIME (1877) Oil on canvas, 13 1/4'' x 11 1/4'' (34 x 29cm), signed with initials. Provenance: With a Mrs Parker, Winter 1903-04 (a relation of the artist's father); Sold at auction (unknown), Dublin, 1971; Sotheby's, 19th century European Paintings, Olympia, 13 July 2006, lot 89; Private collection; Whytes, 10 october 2011 (lot 81); Private Collection, London. Exhibited: 'Memorial Exhibition of the works of Walter Osborne', Royal Hibernian Academy, Winter 1903-04, catalogue no. 71 (Lent by Mrs. Parker). Literature: Sheehy, Jeanne, Walter Osborne, Gifford & Craven, Ballycotton, Co. Cork, 1974, p.110, catalogue no. 1 (listed) Contained in original gilt frame with exhibition plaque dating to the artist's Memorial Exhibition at the RHA, Dublin 1903-1904.