LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

29.92 in. (76.00 cm.) (height) by 20.87 in. (53.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with monogram l.r.

Exhibited:

Royal Academy, 1853, no. 1288;. Port Sunlight, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Centenary Exhibition of Works by the Pre-Raphaelites - their Friends and Followers, 1948, no. 148, as by John Everett Millais (lent by Lord Leverhulme).

Literature:

Athenaeum, no. 1333, 14 May 1853, p. 592;. Art Journal, 1853, p. 151

Provenance:

Thomas McLean, London;. Christie’s, 15 November 1902, lot 69, as Rosalind and Orlando by John Everett Millais (48 guineas to Shepherd);. James Gresham, Gallery House, Woodheys Park, Ashton-on-Mersey;. Christie’s, London, 12 July 1917, lot 97, as by John Everett Millais (100 guineas to Gooden & Fox on behalf of William Lever);. William Hesketh Lever, 1 st Viscount Leverhulme (1851-1925), ‘The Hill’, Hampstead and thence by descent to the 3 rd Viscount Leverhulme; Sotheby’s, Thornton Manor, Wirral, Merseyside, 26-28 June 2001, lot 397;. Christie's, 8 June 2006 lot 354