About the Artwork
Bude Sands at Sunset
1874
John Brett
1831-1902
English
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 30 × 50 inches (76.2 × 127 cm) Framed: 41 × 60 5/8 × 4 inches (104.1 × 154 × 10.2 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Founders Society Purchase, Benson and Edith Ford Fund
78.33
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower left: John Brett 1874
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Provenance
1874, the artist, John Randall Brett (London, England)
1974, Fisher
1978, sold by (Sotheby's Belgravia, London, England)
1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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106th Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Art. Exh. cat., Royal Academy. London, 1874, p. 39, no. 1012.
Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 56, no. 5 (1978): pp. 275, 328 (fig. 40).
"La Chronique des Arts." Supplement to the Gazette des Beaux Arts, no. 1323 (April 1979): p. 47, no. 237 (ill.).
Wissman, F.W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Detroit, 2000, p. 65 (ill.).
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John Brett, Bude Sands at Sunset, 1874, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Benson and Edith Ford Fund, 78.33.
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