HENRY NELSON O’NEIL A.R.A. (BRITISH 1817-1880)
EASTWARD HO! 1857
£23,000
The Forbes Collection at Old Battersea House
Auction: 1 November 2011 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Signed, oil on canvas
Dimensions
52cm x 41cm (20.5in x 16in), and 'Home Again 1858', unsigned, two images in the same frame
Footnote
Note:
Reduced replicas of two separate works which O'Neil exhibited separately at the Royal Academy: Eastward Ho!,1858 and Home Again, 1859.
Provenance:
Anon. sale: Sotheby's, London, May 20, 1970, lot 48, reproduced.
Exhibited:
Victorian Art, The Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, October 29-December 17, 1972, No. 83.
The Art and Mind of Victorian England: Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1974, No. 37.
The Royal Academy (1837-1901) Revisited, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 11-April 27, 1975; The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey, May 10-September 14, 1975; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, September 27-October 26, 1975; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, December 6, 1975-February 1, 1976; The Allen House, Louisville, Kentucky, February 14-28, 1976, No. 50.
The Pre-Raphaelite Era 1848-1914, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, April 12-June 6, 1976, No. 2-20.
32 Victorian Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection, The Fine Art Society, Glasgow, August 12-September 4, 1981; The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh, September 7-30, 1981
Childhood in Victorian England, 1999 Broadway, Denver, Colorado, September 6-28, 1985; The Forbes Magazine Galleries, December 3, 1985-May 10, 1986, No. 27
Victorian Childhood, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, November 12, 1986-January 4, 1987; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, February 11-May 3,1987; The Forbes Magazine Galleries, New York, May 26-December 30,1987.
From Waterloo to the Somme: Images of the Army, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, January 15-February 27, 1988, No. 26.
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 1-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. 25.
The Defining Moment: Victorian Narrative Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, January 15-April 2, 2000; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee, May 12-August 6, 2000; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, September 7, 2000-January 7, 2001; Tampa Art Museum, Tampa, Florida, January 27-April 22, 2001; The Forbes Magazine Galleries, New York, New York, May 2-July 7, 2001; Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, England, July 28-November 10, 2001, No. 37, reproduced in colour.
Literature:
Graham Reynolds, Victorian Painting, London, 1966, p. 87.
Melvin Waldfogel, The Art and Mind of Victorian England, Minneapolis, 1974, pp. 19, 22, colour plate 37a
"A Glimpse of Victoria's world," Minneapolis Tribune, September 22, 1974, reproduced
Peter Altman, "Victorian Age Ideals Evident in Art Works," The Minneapolis Star, September 28, 1974.
Lyndel King, "Heroism Began at Home," Artnews, November, 1974, p. 45; "Victorian Art and Mind," Apollo, December, 1974, p.527, reproduced.
Christopher Forbes, The Royal Academy (1837-1901) Revisited, New York, 1975, p. 114, reproduced p. 115, colour plates XVIII and XIX.
David L. Shirley, "Victorian Art on Display at Princeton," The New York Times, May 11, 1975.
Clyde Burnett, "Survey of Victorian Era English Art: A Good Show," The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, October 5, 1975, p. 3-F.
Roland and Betty Elzea, The Pre-Raphaelite Era 1848-1914, Wilmington, Delaware, 1976, p. 32, reproduced p. 33.
Great Victorian Pictures: Their Paths to Fame, (exhibition catalogue), Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1978, p.63.
Elizabeth Dickson, "The Collectors: Old Battersea House - Malcolm and Christopher Forbes in London," Architectural Digest, April 1979, p. 113, reproduced.
Christopher Wood, "Evelyn Waugh: A Pioneer Collector, The Connoisseur, September 1981.
Susan Moore, "The Awakening Consciousness," Country Life, June 5, 1986, p. 1574, reproduced.
Susan P. Casteras, Victorian Childhood, New York, 1986, pp.40 - 41, reproduced.
Susan Casteras, "Virtue Rewarded: Morality and Faith in Victorian Paintings," Virtue Rewarded: Victorian Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection, The JB Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 1988, p. 4, 23-24, reproduced.
J. W. M. Hichberger, Images of the Army: The Military in British Art 1815 - 1914, Manchester University Press, 1988, p. 170, reproduced.
Joy Billington, "Forbes: The London Collection", Illustrated London News, Spring 1991, p.37