Lot 67
Lot 67
JAMES COLLINSON (BRITISH, 1825-1881)

To Let

Price Realised GBP 47,500
Estimate
GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000
Closed: 29 Jul 2020
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JAMES COLLINSON (BRITISH, 1825-1881)

To Let

Price Realised GBP 47,500
Closed: 29 Jul 2020
Price Realised GBP 47,500
Closed: 29 Jul 2020
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JAMES COLLINSON (BRITISH, 1825-1881)
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oil on canvas, painted oval
2414 x 1812 in. (51.5 x 47 cm.)
Provenance
Professor Thomas Bodkin; Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1959, lot 98.
with The Fine Art Society, London, 1971, where purchased by The Forbes Collection.
Their sale; Christie's, London, 19 February 2003, lot 97, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
Art Journal, 1857, p. 167.
T. Bodkin, 'James Collinson', Apollo, May 1940, pp. 130, 132-133, illustrated p. 130, pl. III.
W. E. Fredeman, Pre-Raphaelitism: A Biblio-critical Study, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965, p. 132.
M. A. Findlay, 'Forbes Saves the Queen', Arts Magazine, February 1973, illustrated p. 29.
P. Byrde, Nineteenth Century Fashion, London, 1992, p. 55, pl. 36.
S. Casteras (ed.), The Defining Moment: Victorian Narrative Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1999, pp. 52-55, no. 8, illustrated p. 53.
R. Beresford, Victorian Visions: Nineteenth-Century Art from the John Schaeffer Collection, Sydney, 2010, pp. 40-41, no. 6.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1857, no. 102.
Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, 1919.
Dublin, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, 1920.
Birmingham, City Museum of Art Gallery, Victorian Exhibition, 1937, no. 98.
London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Victorian Life, 1937, no. 98.
Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 1947, no. 17.
Port Sunlight, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition, 1948, no. 99.
Bournemouth, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Followers, June-August 1951, no. 24.
Arts Council, Wales, Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Drawings, 1955, no. 21.
Nottingham, University Art Gallery, Victorian Painting, 1959, no. 12.
Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, Victorian Paintings, 1968, no. 35.
London, Charles Keyser Gallery, Victorian Paintings, 1971.
Hempstead, New York, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Victorian Art, 29 October - 17 December 1972, no. 66.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974-5, no. L. 1974.62.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton University, Art Museum; Atlanta, The High Museum of Art; Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum; Louisville, Kentucky, The Art House, The Royal Academy (1837-1901) Revisited:Victorian Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection, 1975-6, no. 6.
Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, The Pre-Raphaelite Era 1848-1914, 1976, no. 2-2.
Glasgow and Edinburgh, The Fine Art Society, 32 Victorian Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection, 1981.
Tokyo, Isetan Museum; Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery; Osaka, Daimaru Museum of Art; and Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, The Pre-Raphaelites and their Times, 1985, no. 11.
Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum; and Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Art of Seeing: John Ruskin and the Victorian Eye, 6 March - 29 August 1993, cat. pl. 41.
Charlotte, Mint Museum of Art; Nashville, Cheekwood Museum of Art; Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum; Tampa, Tampa Art Museum; and New York, The Forbes Magazine Galleries, The Defining Moment: Victorian Narrative Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection, 15 January 2000 - 30 June 2001, no. 8.
Provo, Utah, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Masterworks of Victorian art from the collection of John H. Schaeffer, 15 February – 16 August 2008.
Springville, Utah, Springville Museum of Art, The John H. Schaeffer collection of Victorian and European Art, 26 August 2009 - 28 February 2010.
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Victorian Visions: Nineteenth-Century art from the John Schaeffer Collection, 20 May - 29 August. no. 6.
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