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Lot description
Frederick Victor Bailey, British 1919-1997- Floral still life, with peonies, tulips, and hellebores in a glass vase on a ledge, with a snail, butterfly, ladybird, and other insects; oil on panel, signed with initials 'F.V.B' (to the ledge, lower right), 56.3 x 35.8 cm. ARR. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: Bailey's highly-detailed and delicately-handled paintings were heavily influenced by the colourful floral still life works of 17th-century Dutch painters such as Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-1684) or Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750). The window which is reflected in the glass vase here is particularly reminiscent of these artists' oeuvre. Similar works by Bailey include his paintings which sold at Mallams, on 19 October 2022, lot 119 (£2,200 hammer), and Sotheby's, New York, which sold on 11 January 1999, lot 196 ($6,900).