Name: SIR JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS, BT., P.R.A (SOUTHAMPTON 1829-1896 LONDON)
Brand: Getting Better
Price: 130000.00 GBP
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SIR JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS, BT., P.R.A (SOUTHAMPTON 1829-1896 LONDON)
Getting Better
signed with monogram and dated '1876' (lower right)
oil on canvas
40 x 36 in. (101.6 x 91.2 cm.)

Bought from the artist byAlgernon Moses Marsden, King-Street Galleries, for 1,000 guineas, August 1876.
Edward Hermon, M.P., of Wyfold Court, Henley-on-Thames (†); Christie's, London, 13 May 1882, lot 72 (810 gns. to Agnew).
with Agnew's, London, from whom acquired by
Humphrey Roberts, 8 Queen’s Gate Place, Kensington, 28 July 1882, for 1800 gns, from whom acquired by
Agnew's, London, 10 July 1900, a half share sold to Wallis & Son, London, 3 November 1900.
Sir Joseph B Robinson (1840-1929) Dudley House, Park Lane, London, and Hawthornden House, Cape Town, by 1910, and by descent to his daughter,
Princess Ida Louise Labia (1880-1961), and by descent to her son,
Count Natale ‘Luccio’ Labia, Hawthornden House, Cape Town.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 30 November 2000, lot 36, where acquired by
John Schaeffer, Sydney, until
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 November 2003, lot 28, where acquired for the present collection.

Academy, no. 9, 8 January 1876, p. 42.
Athenaeum, 29 April 1876, p. 601.
Daily Telegraph, 29 April 1876, p. 5.
Illustrated London News, no. 68, 29 April 1876, p. 418.
Morning Post, 5 May 1876, p. 3.
Times, 22 May 1876, p. 6.
Graphic, no. 13, 27 May 1876, p. 523.
L.-E.-E. Duranty, ‘John Everett Millais’, Illustrated Biographies of Modern Artists, Paris, 1882, p. 40.
Magazine of Art, vol. 19, December 1895, p. 42.
A.L. Baldry, Sir John Everett Millais - His Art and Influence, London, 1889, pp. 56, 115.
M.H. Spielman, Millais and his Works, Edinburgh, 1898, pp. 129, 148, 173, 183, no. 168.
J.G. Millais, The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, London, 1899, pp. 477, 83.
Illustrated London News, Christmas number, 1960, p. 54, illustrated.
G. H.Fleming, That Ne’er Shall Meet Again. Rossetti, Millais, Hunt, London, 1971, p. 346.
Natale Labia Collection on Loan to the South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 1975.
R. Beresford, Pre-Raphaelites and the Olympians: Selected Works of Victorian Art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales Collections, Sydney, 2001, p. 9, illustrated.
A. Trumble, Love & Death: Art in the Age of Queen Victoria, Adelaide, 2001, pp. 150-1, illustrated.

London, Royal Academy, 1876, no. 387.
London, Grosvenor Gallery, The Principal Pictures of Sir John Everett Millais, 1886, no. 26, lent by Humphrey Roberts.
London, Royal Academy, Works by the late Sir John Everett Millais, Bart., 1898, no.138, lent by Humphrey Roberts.
London, Royal Academy, The Robinson Collection, 2 July - 14 September 1958, no. 76.
Cape Town, National Gallery of South Africa, The Sir Joseph Robinson Collection, Lent by the Princess Labia, 1959, no. 95
Cape Town, National Gallery of South Africa, on extended loan from 1959.
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Pre-Raphaelites and the Olympians: Selected Works of Victorian Art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales Collections, 2001, unnumbered.
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia; Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales; Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery and Auckland, Toi o Tamaki Auckland Art Gallery, Love and Death: Art in the Age of Queen Victoria, 2002, unnumbered.

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