LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

50.79 in. (129.00 cm.) (height) by 69.72 in. (177.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'D MACLISE 1854' (lower left)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, 1855, no. 78. Manchester, Art Treasures Exhibition, Paintings by Modern Masters, 1857, no. 612. Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Ibaraki, Museum of Modern Art; Kintetsu Nara Hall; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Shakespeare in Western Art, 1992-3, no. 49. Utah, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Masterworks of Victorian Art from the Collection of John H. Schaeffer, 2008. Utah, Springville Museum of Art, The John H. Schaeffer Collection of Victorian and Edwardian Art, 2010. Sydney, Art Collection of New South Wales, Victorian Visions. Nineteenth-Century Art from the John Schaeffer Collection, 2012, no. 3. London, Leighton House, Victorian Visions: Pre-Raphaelite and Nineteenth-Century Art from the John Schaeffer Collection, 2012.

Literature:

Daily News, 5 May 1855, p. 5. Examiner, 5 May 1855, p. 277. Morning Chronicle, 5 May 1855, p. 6. Times, 7 May 1855, p. 10. Athenaeum, no. 1437, 12 May 1855, p. 558. Builder, 12 May 1855, p. 219. Spectator, 26 May 1855, p. 555. Illustrated London News, 9 June 1855, p. 562, illustrated p. 568. Art Journal, 1855, p. 171. W.J. O'Driscoll, A Memoir of Daniel Maclise, R.A., London, 1871, pp. 114-5. E.T. Cook and A. Wedderburn (eds), The Works of John Ruskin (Library Edition), London, 1903-12, vol. XIV, pp. 9-12, 16. R. Ormond, 'Daniel Maclise', Burlington Magazine, vol. CX, no. 789, December 1968, p. 693. Daniel Maclise, exh. National Portrait Gallery, London, and National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1972, cat. p. 76. J.B. Priestly, Victoria's Heyday, London, 1972, p. 89.

Provenance:

Commissioned from the artist by Edward Ladd Betts of Preston Hall, Aylesford, Kent; Christie's, London, 30 May 1868, lot 66 (588 gns to Vokins). Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 2 May 1874, lot 118 (768 gns to Permain). with The Maas Gallery, London, 1971. The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York. The Forbes Collection; Christie's, London, 19 February 2003, lot 38, where purchased by the present owner.