LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
17.01 in. (43.20 cm.) (height) by 24.25 in. (61.60 cm.) (width)
Description:
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Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1886, no. 374. Manchester, Manchester Annual Exhibition, 1886. Whitechapel, St Jude's, 1893, no. 39, lent by Mr W. Gillilan. London, Guildhall Art Gallery, 1894, no. 19, lent by Mr W. Gillilan. Nottingham, City of Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery, Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings of the British School, September 1903, no. 36, lent by Mr W. Gillilan.
Literature:
The Christmas Art Annual, London, 1905, pp. 9, 18, 32, illustrated. S. Toll, Frank Dicksee 1853-1928: His Art and Life, Woodbridge, 2016, pp. 67, 69, 70, 84, 94, 100, 228, illustrated p. 70., no. FD.1886.2.
Provenance:
Purchased from the Manchester Annual Exhibition in 1886 by Mr William Carver of Breeze House, Kersal, Manchester. His sale; Christie's, London, 22 March 1890, lot 120 (840 gns to Gooden & Fox). Mr William Gillilan, 6 Palace Gate, Kensington. His sale; Christie's, London, 15 May 1925, lot 109 (150 gns to Mitchell). Mrs Zita Florence Newcomb, damaged by fire and reduced to a fragment. Ernest Howard Shepherd, and thence by descent. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 18 December 1985, lot 133 (£1,100 to Maas Gallery). with J.S. Maas & Son, London, where purchased by the present owner.