£300
Auction: Design Since 1860
oil on board, signed and dated lower right GEORGE WALLIS 1883, signed, inscribed and dated verso
Provenance: From Castle of Park, Aberdeenshire
Exhibited: Kaiser Friedrich Palais
Note: George Wallis was an art teacher and museum curator at the South Kensington Museum (later the V&A), and in 1863 was appointed senior keeper of the art collections, a post he retained until just before his death.