William Powell Frith, RA (British, 1819-1909), "Don Quixote: Sancho Panza Tells a Tale to the Duke and Duchess", 1850, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, several labels en verso, including one from "The Carroll Galleries/Toronto, Canada" and an old handwritten note stating artist, exhibition history and describing the scene from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Part II., Ch 31), 34-3/4" x 46-3/4". Presented in a giltwood frame with artist plaque.

Provenance: Commissioned from the artist by Frederick Huth, London; thence by descent to Charles Frederick Huth, London; Christie's, London, July 6, 1895, lot 82; J. & W. Vokins Gallery, London; Robert G. Roy, Esq., Toronto; The Carroll Galleries, Toronto; Private collection; Waddington's, Toronto, May 16, 2006, lot 14; Private collection. Exhibition: Royal Academy, London, 1850 as number 332.

An earlier study of this painting is conserved at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. A popular black and white engraving was produced in 1851.

Literature: Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts, Volume III, London: Henry Graves and Co., Ltd. and George Bell and Sons, 1905, p. 172.; The Drawing-Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages, London: the London Joint Stock Newspaper Company, Ltd., 1859; Mark Bills and Vivien Knight, eds. William Powell Frith:Painting the Victorian Age, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.