Alfred Pope: An Evolution of Ingenuity

Alfred Sisley (French, 1839–1899)

19. La Serpentine à Londres

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La Serpentine à Londres (The Serpentine in London), 1874

Like the Pissarro and the Renoir, this is the only work by Alfred Sisley that Alfred Pope acquired during his lifetime. Alfred purchased the painting from Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York on December 14, 1892. He sold the work a little over a year later to A. W. Kingman of New York. After that, the painting made its way back to Paris, but it was only fitting that it returned to London, the city that inspired the composition of this charming scene. On November 14, 1938, the 1st Viscount Radcliffe, Hampton Lucy of Warwickshire, England, acquired La Serpentine à Londres from the London-based gallery Arthur Tooth and Sons. Three years later in 1941, the famous British jeweler John E. Fattorini purchased the painting from the Viscount. Only one year after that, the painting made its way to the collection of Captain Edward Molyneux, a leading British fashion designer. In 1945, Molyneux sold the painting, and the 9th Earl of Jersey acquired it. In 2013 it went up for auction at Sotheby’s London, and it has been in a British private collection since.

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