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Sidney Richard Percy, British 1821/22-1886-  View of the Lledr Valley at sunset, with a woman...

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Lot 318

Sidney Richard Percy, 
British 1821/22-1886- 
View of the Lledr Valley at sunset, with a woman...

Price Realised: £3,149

Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000

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Lot 318

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Sidney Richard Percy, 
British 1821/22-1886- 

View of the Lledr Valley at sunset, with a woman resting by a path with her dog and cattle; 

oil on canvas, signed and dated 'SR Percy 1863' (lower right), bears old label inscribed 'No. 1 The Valley of the Lledr / North Wales / Sidney R Percy' attached to the upper stretcher bar, 99 x 153 cm. 

Provenance: 
Private Collection, UK. 

Note: 
Percy, as the son of the painter Edward Williams (1781-1855), was a member of the Williams family of artists, which also included artists George Morland (1763-1804) and James Ward (1769-1859). Percy worked as a landscape painter, depicting the countryside across the United Kingdom, drawing particular inspiration from the landscape of Northern Wales, Yorkshire, Devon, and the Scottish Highlands. He enjoyed the support of a number of prominent contemporaries, including Prince Albert (1819-1861), who bought one of his works, 'A view of Llyn Dulyn, North Wales', as a gift for Queen Victoria (1819-1901) in 1854 [Royal Collection 403653]. He also exhibited 73 works at the Royal Academy between 1842 and 1886. 

The present work is a particularly evocative and atmospheric sunset scene by Percy, recalling, for example, his work which sold at Bonhams, Knightsbridge, on 13 November 2024, lot 49 (£8,960). The Lledr Valley is a valley in Snowdonia in north Wales. It runs from the top of the Crimea Pass, north of Blaenau Ffestiniog down to Betws-y-Coed. 

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