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