SIR JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS P.R.A. (BRITISH 1829-1896)
ESCAPE OF THE HERETIC
£43,250
The Forbes Collection at Old Battersea House
Auction: 1 November 2011 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Signed with monogram, oil on canvas
Dimensions
25.5cm x 19cm (10in x 7.5in)
Footnote
Provenance:
Purchased from the artist by Agnew on 18 July 1859
Thomas Plint
His sale, Christie's London, 8 March 1862, lot 296
EJ Pilgeram
Maas Gallery, London
Christie's London, 15 December 1972, lot 115
The Fine Art Society, London
Exhibited:
THE WORKS OF SIR JOHN E. MILLAIS, BART., PRA, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1888, no. 75.
The Pre-Raphaelite Influence, Maas Gallery, London, 1973, no.11
The Royal Academy (1837-1901) Revisited, March 11-April 27, 1975, Metropolitan Museum of Art; May 10-September 15, 1975, The Art Museum,
Princeton University; September 27-October 26, 1975, The High Museum of Art Atlanta; December 6-February 1, 1976, Cincinnati Art Museum; February 14-28, 1976, The Allen House, Louisville, Kentucky; No. 45.
Virtue Rewarded: Victorian Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, August 29-November 6, 1988; The Forbes Magazine Galleries, New York, November 22, 1988-April 16, 1989; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, May 6-June 18, 1989; Birmingham Art Museum, Birmingham, Alabama, July -August 13, 1989; The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 2-October 15, 1989; The Naples Fine Arts Center Galleries, Naples, Florida, October 28-December 10, 1989; The Society of Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, January 5-February 4, 1990; Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, England, June 15-July 29, 1990, no.49
Note:
This is a smaller version of an example held at the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
Literature:
M.H. Spielman, Millais and his Works William Blackwood and Sons London 1898, pp.169, 183
J.G. Millais, The Life and Letters of Sir John Everet Millais, Methuen & Co., London 1899, VoI II p470
Elizabeth Dickson, "The Collectors: Old Battersea House - Malcolm and Christopher Forbes in London," ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, April 1979,p. 113, reproduced.