AFTER JOHN MARTIN
SATAN TEMPTING EVE
£2,400
The Forbes Collection at Old Battersea House
Auction: 1 November 2011 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
47cm x 67cm (18.5in x 26.4in), and three others by same hand, illustrations from Paradise Lost (4)
Footnote
Satan Contemplating Adam And Eve In Paradise and Satan Tempting Eve:
Provenance:Collection of R.T. Laughton Esq., ca. 1970.
Private Collection.
Anon. Sale: Phillips, London, June 16, 1998, Lot 26, reproduced.
Exhitibited:
Festival of Britain Exhibition, Tyneside's Contribution to Art, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England, 1951.John Martin Exhibition, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England, October, 1970
Space and Light: Painters' Perceptions from Turner to Tabner, Chichester Festivities, The Bishop's Palace, Chichester, England, July 2-July 18, 1999, no. 1.
The Conflict Between Satan And Death:
Provenance:
Anon. Sale: Sotheby-Parke Bernet, London, March 18, 1964, Lot 56.
Anon. Sale: Sotheby's, London, June 10, 1970, Lot 327.
Exhibited:
Festival of Britain Exhibition, Tyneside's Contribution to Art, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England, 1951.
Literature:
Thomas Balston, John Martin, 1789-1854, His Life and Works,
1947, pp.94-105.
Paradise: The Angel Gabriel Approaching Adam And Eve:
Provenance:
Thomas Laughton, brother of Charles Laughton, the actor.
Anon. Sale: Sotheby's, London, March 18, 1964, Lot 64.
Anon. Sale: Christie's, London, November 19, 1970, Lot 248.
Exhibited:
Festival of Britain Exhibition, Tyneside's Contribution to Art, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England, 1951.
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. 44, reproduced.
Literature:
Thomas Balston, John Martin, 1789-1854, His Life and Works,
1947, No.94-105.