After Joseph Wright of Derby, ARA, British 1734-1797- Two boys by candlelight, blowing a bladder; oil on canvas, 90.2 x 70 cm. Provenance: Collection of David Pleydell-Bouverie and Ava Alice Muriel Astor, USA. Exhibited: San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Long Loan, no.677.60. Note: After the original, now lost, oil by Wright of Derby, executed in c.1769-70, the best version of which is held in The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, California [no.58.16]. Two other copies exist at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford [WA1899.CDEF.P14] and at The Minories, Victor Batte-Lay Foundation [137.P.83]. The artist's earliest documented treatment of the subject in oil, which exhibits compositional variations to the present work, was rediscovered and exhibited at TEFAF in Maastricht in 2019, and soon after entered the collection of the Getty Museum [no.2020.20].Please refer to department for condition report