Robert Brough

Francis Derwent Wood, R.A. (1871-1926)

Signed "F. Derwent Wood 1904

Bronze

13 inches

Private Collection, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Scan and text by George P. Landow

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Signed "F. Derwent Wood 1904." Brough, a friend of Wood and John Singer Sargeant, was a young painter killed in a railroad accident. After his death, Sargeant supposedly finished his canvases to help his mistress and child financially.

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