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DAY & FABER master drawings

    Henry Bright (Saxmundham 1810 - Ipswich 1873)

    Mont Blanc from Courmayeur

    Description:

    signed: 'H Bright' (lower right)
    pencil, pastel and bodycolour
    603 x 845 mm

    Provenance:

    Christie's, London, 9 November 1993, lot 115
    Sotheby's, London, 6 June 2007, lot 212

    Note:

    Henry Bright was a distinguished English landscape painter associated with the Norwich School. He made several trips abroad, including one to the Val d'Aosta in November 1849 from which this pastel most probably dates.

    Mont Blanc from Courmayeur