Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
The Property of a Gentleman
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Study for 'Morning Music'
Auction Closed
July 5, 10:16 AM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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The Property of a Gentleman
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
London 1828-1882 Birchington-on-Sea
Study for 'Morning Music'
Pencil;
signed with monogram lower right (possibly added at a later date)
170 by 132 mm
The artist’s sale, London, Christie’s, 12 May 1883, lot 108 to ‘MacKinlay’;
with Barbizon House, London;
David Gould by 1961;
with Maas Gallery, London,
where purchased by L.S. Lowry in 1963,
his estate sale, London, Christie’s, 18 December 1984, lot 46;
Denis Lanigan, Canada;
with Maas Gallery, London,
where purchased by the present owner
with Barbizon House, London;
David Gould by 1961;
with Maas Gallery, London,
where purchased by L.S. Lowry in 1963,
his estate sale, London, Christie’s, 18 December 1984, lot 46;
Denis Lanigan, Canada;
with Maas Gallery, London,
where purchased by the present owner
O.G. Destree, Les Pre-Raphaelites: Notes sur L'art decoratif et la Peinture en Angleterre, 1894, no.4, p. 81;
H.C. Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life, London 1899, p. 136 no. 151;
V. Surtees, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1971, cat. no. 170 R.I.B.;
S. Toll, 'Collecting the Neglected’ in Antique Collecting, October 2011, p. 7
H.C. Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life, London 1899, p. 136 no. 151;
V. Surtees, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1971, cat. no. 170 R.I.B.;
S. Toll, 'Collecting the Neglected’ in Antique Collecting, October 2011, p. 7
Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery, A Pre-Raphaelite Passion. The Private Collection of L.S. Lowry, 1977, no. 4;
Saskatoon, University of Saskatchewan, Kenderdine Gallery, The Victorian Avant Garde: The Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Movements, 1995, no. 51;
Toronto, University of Toronto Art Centre, Dream of the Past - Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Movement Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings from the Lanigan Collection, 2000, no. 69
Saskatoon, University of Saskatchewan, Kenderdine Gallery, The Victorian Avant Garde: The Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Movements, 1995, no. 51;
Toronto, University of Toronto Art Centre, Dream of the Past - Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Movement Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings from the Lanigan Collection, 2000, no. 69