LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

99 x 99

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, 1874, no. 129 ; Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1878 ; Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887, no. 290 ; London, Guildhall Art Gallery, 1900, no. 109 ; London, Royal Academy, This Brilliant Year: Queen Victorias Jubilee 1887, 1977, no. 148

Literature:

Athenaeum, 2 May 1874, p. 163 ; Times, 2 May 1874, p. 163; Saturday Review, 16 May 1874, p. 622; Art Journal, June 1874, p. 163; Spectator, June 1874, p. 692; Athenaeum, 11 May 1878, p. 609; Athenaeum, 16 July 1887, p. 92; Athenaeum, 14 April 1900, p. 473 ; Wilfrid Meynell,The Modern School of Art, vol. 111, n.d., p. 113; Christopher Wood,Dictionary of Victorian Painters, 1971, p. 316, illustrated; Mary Cowling,Victorian Figurative Painting: Domestic Genre and the Victorian Social Scene, London, 2000, pp. 54-56, illustrated

Provenance:

William Fenton of Dutton Manor, RibchesterSale: Christies, London, 5 May 1879, lot 115 (1,180 gns to Agnews) Thomas Henry Ismay of Dawpool, WirralPossibly, Cooling Galleries, LondonMrs Fenning (sale: Christies, London, 10 July 1970, lot 170)Richard Green, LondonNorman Blake, Esq., x 1977Coughton Galleries, Ltd., where purchased x a private collector (sale: Sothexs, London, 6 November 1996, lot 323) Richard Green, London Sale: Christies, London, 27 November 2002, lot 13 Purchased at the above sale x the present owner