English Country Road, 1880

Provenance

Private collection, Germantown, Pennsylvania

William G. Grange, acquired from above, 1916

[With] William Vareika Fine Arts, Newport, Rhode Island

Private collection, acquired from above, 1989

Sale, Christie’s, New York, New York, September 25, 2012, lot 48, from above

William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York

Estate of above, 2016

The Louis-Dreyfus Family Collections, from above

Private collection, New York, New York, 2021

Literature

Linda S. Ferber, William Trost Richards (1833–1905): American Landscape and Marine Painter (New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1980), 326-27, fig. 259.

Note: In 1880, William Trost Richards spent the summer painting with his family on the Isle of Wight,  off the southern coast of England.

Gérard C. Louis-Dreyfus (1932–2016), also known as William, was a billionaire businessman and father to famed actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The French native amassed an extensive art collection throughout his life, which he left to his family.