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60 41 Walter Frederick Osborne RHA ROI (1859-1903) A TALE OF THE SEA, 1885 oil on canvas signed and dated lower left 24 by 20in. (61 by 50.8cm) Frame Size: 31.5 by 27.5in. (80 by 69.9cm) Condition: This work appears to be in very good condition. The canvas is taut and stable. There is some cracking visible on close inspection but appears stable and has not led to flaking. The surface appears clean. Provenance: Richard Green, London; Sotheby’s, ‘Irish Sale’, London, 7 May 2008, lot 116; Private collection Exhibited: ’Summer Exhibition’, RHA, Dublin, 1885, catalogue no. 96 [35 guineas] Literature: Dublin University Review, Art Supplement, March 1885, p.12 (illustrated); Bodkin, Thomas, Four Irish Landscape Painters, Dublin and London, 1920, Appendix XI, p.119; Sheehy, Jeanne, Walter Osborne, Ballycotton, Cork, 1974, no.116, p.118; Collins, Ian, Making Waves, Artists in Southwold, Norwich, 2005, p.71 (illustrated) €300,000-€400,000 (£266,670-£355,560 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot41