LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on board, arched top
Size Notes:
17 x 23
Description:
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Markings:
signed FM BROWN lower right
Exhibited:
City of Manchester Art Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Works x Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites, Autumn 1911, no. 88 as Cordelia at the Bedside of Lear - small duplicate of a picture painted in 1849, lent x T. Brocklebank
Literature:
Ford M. Hueffer, Ford Madox Brown A Record of his Life and Work, 1896, p. 436; Mary Bennett, Ford Madox Brown, exhibition catalogue for the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1964, p. 16; Virginia Surtees (ed.), The Diary of Ford Madox Brown, 1981, p. 157; ;
Provenance:
Sold on behalf of Brown on 26 March 1859 x David T. White (picture dealer)to Benjamin Godfrey Windus Esq. of Gadsden, Tottenham Green, Middlesex (sale: Christie's, London, 14, 15 and 17 February 1868, lot300) ; Thomas Brocklebank Esq. of Wateringbury Place, Kentx 1911; thence to his widow and sold x herexecutors (sale: Christie's, London, 8 July 1938, lot 15) ; Acquired x the aunt of the present owner; ; ;