LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

20.87 in. (53.00 cm.) (height) by 16.14 in. (41.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Royal Academy, 1879, no.128

Literature:

Athenaeum, 3 May 1879, p.572;. Illustrated London News, 3 May 1879, p.414;. Art Journal, 1879, p.127;. Ernest Rhys, Sir Frederic Leighton Bart., P.R.A. - An Illustrated Chronicle, 1895, p.25;. Ernest Rhys, Frederic Lord Leighton - Late President of the Royal Academy of Arts - An Illustrated Record of his Life and Work, 1900, p.39;. Alice Corkran, Frederic Leighton, 1904, pp.104, 203;. Mrs Russell Barrington, The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton, 1906, vol.II, p.387;. Edgcumbe Stanley, Lord Leighton of Stretton, 1906;. Leonee and Richard Ormond, Lord Leighton, 1975, pp. 128, 164 cat.no.259

Provenance:

Col. John Hargreaves of Ormerod House, Burnley, his sale Christie’s, 2 May 1896, lot 88, bought ‘Agnews’ for 231gns;. Thomas Agnews & Son, London;. William Sampson of The British Galleries, London, where bought by a private collector and thence by descent