HENRY A. HAWKINS (BRITISH C.1800-1881)
THE CRUCIFIXION
The Forbes Collection at Old Battersea House
Auction: 1 November 2011 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
114.5cm x 183cm (45.1in x 72in)
Footnote
Provenance:
Anon. sale Christie's London, 14th July 1972, Lot 151 (as by John Martin)
With The Fine Art Society, London
Exhibited:
Possibly Royal Academy, 1835, no. 788
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. 43 (as by John Martin).
Literature:
C. Forbes, 'Images of Christ in the Nineteenth-Century: British Paintings in the Forbes Magazine Collection', Antiques, December 2001, vol. clx, no. 6, pp. 800-1, illus. p. 798.