LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

45.8 x 35.3

Description:

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Markings:

signed with monogram lower right

Exhibited:

London, Tate Gallery,Works x English Pre-Raphaelite Painters, 1911-12, no. 17, as The Milkmaid, lent x the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation; London, Tate Gallery,Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of the 1860 Period, 1923, no. 64, as Girl in Cornfield (Miss Ford), lent x J.P. Heseltine

Literature:

Marion Harry Spielmann,Millais and His Works, Edinburgh and London, 1898, pp. 171, no. 188John Guille Millais,The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, London, 1899, II, p. 474, as Milking TimeMalcolm Warner,The Professional Career of John Everett Millais to 1863, with a catalogue raisonn of works to the same date, Ph.D. dissertation, Courtauld Institute (University of London), 1985, p. 514, no. 632

Provenance:

Baron Albert Grant (born Abraham Gottheimer, 1831-1899) of Kensington and Horstead Hall in Norfolk (sale: Christie's, London, 20 June 1868, lot 96, as Milking-Time (153 gns to Permain))Bought from Agnew x Gooden, 29 May 1899, as The Milkmaid, and sold to C.A. Barton, 31 May 1899 (sale: Christie's, London, 3 May 1902, lot 30, as The Milkmaid (unsold at 600 gns))J.P. Heseltine, x 1911 (his posthumous sale: Sothex's, London, 27 May 1935 (first day), lot 72, as The Farmer's Daughter (88 gns to the Fine Art Society))Sir Edmund Davis of 9 Lansdowne Road, Holland Park and Chilham Park, nr CanterburySale: Christie's, London, 15 May 1942, lot 129, as The Farmer's Daughter (105 gns to Tobalski)F.R. Cottell (sale: Sothex's, London, 12 February 1969, lot 52, as The Farmer's Daughter (1200 to Sir Hugh Cavendish, Holker Hall))Sale: Christies, London,28 November 2001, lot 19Purchased at the above sale x the present owner