LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

14.02 in. (35.60 cm.) (height) by 10.63 in. (27.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with monogram (lower right)

Exhibited:

London, Grosvenor Gallery, Exhibition of Works by Sir John Everett Millais, 1886, no. 111, as Portrait of Master Wycliffe Taylor, son of the Late Tom Taylor, Esq. London, National Portrait Gallery, Millais: Portraits, 19 February - 6 June 1999, no. 34.

Literature:

Letter from Tom Taylor to his father-in-law, the Rev. Thomas Baker, 26 April 1864, unpublished. M. H. Spielmann, Millais and His Works, Edinburgh and London, 1898, p. 170. J. G. Millais, The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, President of the Royal Academy, London, 1899, vol. I, p. 383, and vol. II, p. 472.

Provenance:

The artist, by whom given to Tom Taylor (1817-1880), the sitter's father, December 1864, and by descent to his wife, Mrs Tom Taylor (d. 1905), and by descent to the sitter, John Wycliffe Taylor (d. 1905), and by descent. Sale of his heirs; Christie's, London, 6 June 1997, lot 38, as A Portrait of John Wycliffe Taylor at the Age of Five, where purchased by the present owner.