Arthur Leonard Nicholson

Arthur Leonard Nicholson, active around 1933 in Surrey, England, appears in the provenance as recorded in the Banque Dreyfus Inventory for tableau no. 102 as “Coll. W. Mackenzie, Londres; A. Léonard Nicholson, Londres” for the Abraham van den Hecken work “Le Chirurgien de village”. The painting is also known under the alternative titles “Scène d’intérieur avec pédicure et dentist” and “Joyeuse compagnie”.    Initial research found a Christie, Manson & Wood Sale (Pictures of Old Masters) in London on 20 June 1903 (Lugt No. 61393) with sellers listed as follows: A Residuary Estate [H Bourgeois, Paris]; A Gentleman [T H Ward] - [Lugt]; [A Leonard Nicholson].    No further information was found to verify the identity of Arthur Leonard Nicholson in relation to collecting Dutch and Flemish seventeenth-century paintings in the United Kingdom at this time.      Links:   [about:blank https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?q=A%20Residuary%20Estate%20%5BH%20Bourgeois%2C%20Paris&rn=1]   [about:blank https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/history/collection-history/whereabouts-of-paintings-1933-1945]