LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

20.08 in. (51.00 cm.) (height) by 36.61 in. (93.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with monogram and dated 1859 l.r.; further signed and inscribed with the artist's address on the reverse

Exhibited:

Royal Academy, 1860, no.578;. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1905, no.421

Literature:

Times, 17 May 1860, p.578;. Cosmo Monkhouse, 'A Pre-Raphaelite Collection', in Magazine of Art, 1883, p.66, illustrated p.69;. Percy Bate, The English Pre-Raphaelite Painters, 1899, illustrated facing p.90

Provenance:

Purchased from the artist by John Hamilton Trist and thence by descent to Herbert Hardwick Trist in 1899 and further descent to Mrs Louisa Mary Trist (née Rigden);. Christie's, 23 April 1937 to 'Fasey';. Fine Art Society, London where purchased by a private collector;. Christie's, 10 June 2003, lot 103, where purchased by the present owner