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'The Butler' and 'The Landlord' both signed lower left 'W Dendy Sadler' oil on canvas, a pair 75 x 49.5 cm

Footnote: Provenance: Sotheby's, The Brockhall Sale, Weedon, Northamptonshire, 16th June 1997, lots 364, 365 (sold for £13,000) Born in Dorking, Surrey, in 1854, and brought up in neighbouring Horsham, West Sussex, Walter Dendy Sadler decided to become a painter at an early age. At 16, he enrolled at The Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, where he spent two years before moving to Düsseldorf, Germany, to train under Wilhelm Simmler (1840-1923). Testament to his prodigious skill, in 1872, when barely 18 years old, Dendy Sadler exhibited at the Dudley Gallery, and then at the Royal Academy the following year, in 1873. Favouring scenes of everyday domestic life, Dendy Sadler’s genre paintings were often humorous, and occasionally moralising. Prior to painting a scene, many of which he set in the 18 th and early 19 th century, he was known to have enlisted local villagers to pose as models, many of whom can be seen in successive pictures playing different roles and wearing different costumes.

Condition report: The Butler - Oil on canvas which is unlined, the canvas is in plane with good tension. The paint layer is in a good condition. The varnish is clear and even. There is a splash of house paint in the upper half and a light layer of dust on the surface. The frame is in a good condition. The Landlord - Oil on canvas which is unlined and has an artist supplier’s stamp for Cornellisen's on the reverse. The canvas tension is slightly slack but the picture is in plane. The paint layer is in a very good condition. The varnish is clear and even. The frame is in a good condition.

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