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Sir John Everett Millais, P.R.A.

Clarissa

Lot Closed

December 9, 03:36 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Sir John Everett Millais, P.R.A.

British

1829 - 1896

Clarissa


signed with monogram and dated 1887 lower left

oil on canvas

Unframed: 147 by 94cm., 58 by 37in.

Framed: 178 by 126cm., 70 by 49in.

Please note the amended condition report for this lot.
James Staats Forbes, his sale, Christie’s, London, 2 June 1916, lot 131, bought by ‘Duncan’
Christie’s, London, 15 June 1951, lot 86
Major Philip Gribble, his sale Sotheby’s, London, 7 July 1967, lot 114
Mrs Downie Sloan, her sale, Sotheby’s, London, 26 November 1985, lot 47
Private collection, UK; Sotheby’s, 5 June 1996, lot 119 where purchased by the present owner
Art Journal, 1895, p.87
M. H. Spielmann, Millais and his Works, 1898, pp.65, 148, 177, 179
J.G. Millais, The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, two volumes, 1899, volume II, pp.196, 484, 495