Nicholas Biddle Kittell

Daydreaming

1884

19th Century Dutch

Exhibited: Royal Academy, London, 1880, no. 355 (as Summer)

Signed and dated '1884' lower right

Exhibited: Birmingham Royal Society of Artists, 1879 “Autumn Exhibition of the Birmingham Royal Society of Artists.” The London Times, 25 August 1879. T...

Signed with monogram lower right

19th Century Dutch

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