LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

52.01 in. (132.10 cm.) (height) by 35.00 in. (88.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with the artist's monogram and dated 1869 (lower right)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, 1869, no. 127. Vienna,. Welt-Ausstellung , 1873, no. 47 (as. Porträt des Fräuleins Nina Lehmann) . London, Grosvenor Gallery,. Annual Exhibition , 1884, no. 57. London, Grosvenor Gallery,. Works by Sir John Everett Millais ,. Bt., R.A., 1886, no. 93. London, Guildhall Gallery, Corporation of London Art Gallery,. Annual Loan Exhibition, 1892, no. 4 (as. Miss Nina Lehmann, Afterwards Lady Campbell) . Edinburgh, Society of Scottish Artists, 1893, no. 415. London, Royal Academy,. Works by the Late Sir John Everett Millais, Bt., P.R.A., 1898, no. 111

Literature:

The Athenaeum, 1869, vol. I, p. 609. . The Millais Gallery , Boston, 1871, p. 51. Henry Blackburn,. Grosvenor Notes, London, 1884, p. 17. . The Athenaeum, 1884, vol. I, p. 573. . The Athenaeum , 1892, vol. I, p. 510. Personal Recollections. [By an Artist],. The Daily Telegraph , August 14, 1896, p. 5-6. . Exhibition of Works by the Late Sir John Everett Millais, Bart. , London, 1898, p. 36. Marion H. Spielmann,. Millais and His Works , Edinburgh, 1898, pp. 120, 171. Alfred Lys Baldry,. Sir John Everett Millais, His Art and Influence, London, 1899, pp. 52, 59. John Guille Millais,. The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, London, 1899, vol. II, p. 19-20. Leslie Linder,. The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881-1897 , London, 1966, p. 97. Caroline Dakers,. The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society , New Haven, 1999, p. 133-7. Peter Funnell, Malcolm Warner, Kate Flint, H.C.G. Matthew and Leonee Ormond,. Millais: Portraits , exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery, London, 1999, p. 113-4, illustrated p. 117. Paul Barlow,. Time Present and Past: The Art of John Everett Millais , Ashgate, United Kingdom, 2005, p. 173-4. Jason Rosenfeld,. John Everett Millais, New York, 2012, p. 122, illustrated p. 121. Robert Terrell Bledsoe,. Dickens, Journalism, Music: 'Household Words' and 'All the Year Round ,'. London, 2013, p. 188

Provenance:

Frederick Lehmann, Esq., London (until 1891). Mrs. Frederick Lehmann, London (widow of the above, until 1902). Thence by descent (and sold, Sotheby's, London, June 19, 1984, lot 73, illustrated). Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale) . Thence by descent