Edwin Long

Thisbe

Auction Closed

May 25, 07:43 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, United States

Edwin Long

British 1829–1891

Thisbe

monogramed and dated lower right: 18 EL 81

oil on canvas

canvas: 57 ⅘ by 31 ½ in.; 147 by 80 cm

framed: 72 ⅔ by 47 ¼ in.; 184.5 by 120 cm

Arthur Lucas, London

Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 8 May 1886, lot 94;

J. &W. Vokins, Manchester;

Probably purchased by Edward Harrison, Esq.;

Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 8 May 1908;

Purchased by the grandfather of the present owner in the 1950s;

Thence by desent.

Academy Notes, 1884, p. 35, reproduced

Athenaeum, 24 May 1884, p. 668.;

H. Blackburn, English Art in 1884, pp. 11-12, reproduced;

J. Denison Champlin and C. C. Perkins (eds.), Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, Vol. IV, M DCCC LXXXVII, reproduced opposite p. 266;

A. Chester, ‘The Art of Edwin Long’, in Windsor Magazine February 1908, p. 334, reproduced;

R. Quick, The Life and Works of Edwin Long, Bournemouth, 1931, pp. 21, 44, reproduced;

J.A. Kestner, Mythology and Misogyny, Madison, 1989, pp. 230, 352;

M. Bills, Edwin Longsden Long RA, London, 1998, pp. 142-3, cat.no.199, reproduced;

Royal Academy, London, 1884, no. 358