Frederic, Lord Leighton, P.R.A.

Please note this lot will be taken to our Greenford Park Warehouse after the sale and not as stated in the printed catalogue.

Henry Bingham Mildmay (1828-1905), 46 Berkeley Square, London and Flete House, Holbeton, Devon, by 1876;

Thence by descent to his son Francis Bingham Mildmay, 1st Baron Mildmay of Flete (1861-1947), by 1907;

Taxation Publishing Company, Ltd.;

By whom sold, London, Christie's, 25 November 1983, lot 66 to Christopher Wood, London;

By whom acquired for Frederick Koch (1933-2020), Sutton Place, Surrey;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 June 1993, lot 36;

Where acquired by the present owner.

The Art Journal, 1874, p. 166;

The Pall Mall Gazette, 2 May 1874, p. 11;

Western Morning News, 2 May 1874, p. 3;

The Times, 2 May 1874, p. 12;

Glasgow Herald, 2 May 1874, p. 3;

Birmingham Daily Post, 2 May 1874, p. 5;

Manchester Evening News, 6 May 1874, p. 4;

The Graphic – An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, 9 May 1874, p. 18;

The Examiner, 16 May 1874, p. 21;

E. Rhys, Frederic, Lord Leighton, P.R.A., London 1900, pp. 29 and 33;

A. Corkran, Frederic Leighton, London 1904, p. 101;

E. Barrington, Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton, London 1906, vol II, p. 205;

J.E. Staley, Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A., London and New York 1906, p. 95;

Western Morning News, 5 January 1907, p. 4;

Devon and Exeter Daily Gazette, 5 January 1907, p. 3;

The Times, 13 February 1907, p. 5;

A.L. Baldry, Leighton, London and New York 1908, p. 24, reproduced on opposite page;

L. and R. Ormond, Lord Leighton, London 1975, pp. 98 and 162, no. 218;

M.A. Stevens (ed.), The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse, exh. cat., London 1984, p. 201, no. 87, reproduced in colour;

C. Newall, The Art of Lord Leighton, Oxford and New York 1990, pp. 80, 81 and 84, reproduced in colour plate 55;

Visions of the Ottoman Empire, exh. cat., Scotland 1994, pp. 33 and 62, no. 22, reproduced;

R. Ash, Lord Leighton, London 1995, reproduced in colour plate 16;

S. Jones, C. Newall, L. Ormond, R. Ormond and B. Read (eds.), Frederic, Lord Leighton - Eminent Victorian Artist, exh. cat., London 1996, p. 172, reproduced in colour;

N. Tromans (ed.), The Lure of the East - British Orientalist Paintings, London 2008, p. 44, reproduced in colour.

London, Royal Academy, 1874, no. 303 (as Old Damascus: Jews's Quarter);

Philadelphia, International Exhibition, 1876, no. 99 (as Interior of a Jew’s House, Damascus, lent by Bingham Mildmay);

London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1907, no. 163 (as Gathering Citrons, lent by Francis Bingham Mildmay);

London, Royal Academy of Arts; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse, London: 24 March – 20 May 1984; Washington, D.C.: 1 July – 28 October 1984, no. 87;

Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Visions of the Ottoman Empire, 16 August - 6 November 1994;

London, Royal Academy, Frederic Leighton 1830-1896, 15 February - 21 April 1996, no. 66.