Purchased (Grant-in-Aid) with assistance from the National Art-Collections Fund and the Sue Hammerson Charitable Trust 1982
Prov: Perhaps bt from the artist by Charles Thomas Lucas (d.1895) and with him by 1862 when lent to International Exhibition;...; C.J. Lucas in 1896 when lent to Victorian Era Exhibition; for sale, along with its companion T 03615, at that exhibition but still with C.J. Lucas in 1909; ...; Cotching & Son, Horsham by 1958; ...; anon. sale, Sotheby's Belgravia 9 April 1974 (104, repr. in col.) £2,700 bt R. Dell; ...; a private collector from whom bt by the Tate Gallery through Albion Fine Art
Exh: RA 1857 (562); Liverpool Academy 1857 (193); International Exhibition, South Kensington 1862 (720); Victorian Era Exhibition, Earls Court 1897 (316); Great Victorian Pictures, AC tour, Leeds City Art Gallery, January–March 1978, Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery, March–May 1978, Bristol City Art Gallery, May–July 1978, RA, July–September 1978 (51, repr.); Solomon. A Family of Painters, Geffrye Museum, November–December 1985, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, January–March 1986 (17, repr.)
Engr: Mezzotint by W.H. Simmons, pub. Henry Graves & Co. 1 January 1866 (see T03616 above)
Lit: Daily News, 5 May 1857, p.2; Illustrated London News, XXX, 9 May 1857, p.444; Critic, 15 May 1857, p.233; Athenaeum, 16 May 1857, p.633; Literary Gazette, 16 May 1857, p.476; Punch, 16 May 1857, p.200; Times, 18 May 1857, p.9; Critic, 1 June 1857, p.255; Art Journal, III, 1 June 1857, p.174; John Ruskin, Academy Notes, 1857 (E.T. Cook and A. Wedderburn, eds., The Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin, XIV, 1904, p.114); Illustrated London News, XXX, 20 June 1857, p.613, repr. p.614 in wood engraving by H.O. Smith; Art Journal, VI, 1 February 1862, pp.74–5; Athenaeum, 27 December 1862, p.848; Art Journal, VII, 1 January 1863, p.29; J.G. Millais, The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, 1899, 1, p.240; Dictionary of National Biography, XVIII, 1909,...