GEORGE EDWARD LODGE (British, 1860-1954). WATERBIRDS: MATCHING SET OF EIGHT, variously signed, and each identified by species on labels verso. Watercolor and gouache on artists' board. - Framed, sight: 10 in. x 6 in., each Can be hung together in various geometric patterns on a single wall Estimate $7,000-9,000
ARTIST: Painter of birds and animals, in oil, tempera, and watercolor. Exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1881, also Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street and elsewhere. Lodge was a naturalist and ornithologist. He lived most of his life at "Hawk House", Camberley, Surrey. (Christopher Wood, "The Dictionary of Victorian Painters", 2nd edition, p. 290
PROVENANCE: Sotheby's, London March 25, 2009 Lot # 296
Private collection of an art historian, Bethesda, MD
