LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

27.01 in. (68.60 cm.) (height) by 19.76 in. (50.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Laura. T. Alma Tadema. op LXX XIII' (lower left) and further signed and dated 'Laura T. Alma. Tadema/26th April 1894' (on the reverse) and inscribed 'ANNA' (on the bedpost)

Exhibited:

London, New Gallery, 1894, no. 160. Brussels, Brussels International Exhibition, British Fine Art Section, 1897, no. 51. London, Fine Art Society, Memorial Exhibition, 1910, no. 108, lent by Vernon Watney. Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, and London, Leighton House, Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, February - October 2017, no. 79.

Literature:

H. Blackburn, New Gallery Notes, 1894, p. 13. Athenaeum 3472, 12 May 1894, p. 620. R. Ross, 'The Eulogy of Lady Alma-Tadema', Memorial Exhibition catalogue, Fine Art Society, 1910, illustrated, p. 6. M. Hepworth Dixon, The Studio, London, June 1910, p. 56, illustrated p. 58. C. Wood, Dictionary of British Art, IV: 2, Woodbridge, 1995, illustrated p. 113. M. Bettancourt, ‘A Victorian Painter of Moments’, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 April 1990. C. Valentine Dixon, ‘Laura Theresa Epps – Lady Alma-Tadema, Artist (1852–1909)’, M.Phil. dissertation, University of Sussex, 2006, no. 106. E. Prettejohn & P. Trippi (eds.), Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, exh. cat., Munich, 2016, pp. 134, 163 & 185, illustrated p. 134, no. 175.

Provenance:

Vernon Watney, and by descent to Lady Margaret Watney, and by descent to her granddaughter Mrs P.H. Parker. Her sale; Christie's, London, 15 June 1973, lot 64, as 'Anna', where purchased by the present owner.