Albert Joseph Moore, A.R.W.S.

Humphrey Roberts (1819–1907), 15 The Esplanade, Waterloo, Liverpool and 8 Queen’s Gate Place, London;

From whom acquired by Thomas Agnew & Son, London in 1899;

From whom acquired by Charles Dunell Rudd (1844–1916), Ardnamurchan, Argyll;

By whose Executors sold ('The Collection of the late C. D. Rudd, Esq., of Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire'), London, Christie’s, 2 May 1919, lot 63 (as Sisters), to Gooden & Fox, London;

William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925);

By whom presented to H.R.H. Princess Mary (1897–1965) on the occasion of her marriage to Henry, Viscount Lascelles (1882–1947) in 1922, Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire;

With Durlacher Brothers, New York, by 1964;

Lillian Bostwick Phipps (1906–1987), New York;

By whose Executors sold ('Property from the Estate of the Late Lillian Bostwick Phipps'), New York, Sotheby’s, 24 May 1988, lot 94;

Where acquired by a private collector;

Thence by descent;

By whom sold ('Property of a Lady'), New York, Sotheby’s, 24 May 2017, lot 10;

Where acquired for the present collection.

Building News, 2 May 1879, p. 469;

London Daily Chronicle, 8 May 1879, p. 5;

Daily Telegraph & Courier, 10 May 1879, p. 3;

The Graphic, 10 May 1879, p. 403;

London Evening Standard, 12 May 1879, p. 3;

Globe, 12 May 1879, p. 6;

John Bull, 24 May 1879, p. 7;

Pall Mall Gazette, 26 May 1879, p. 4;

Bedfordshire Mercury, 21 June 1879, p. 4;

Liverpool Albion, 30 August 1879, p. 4;

Liverpool Post, 30 August 1879, p. 5;

W.G. Herdman, 'Walker Art Gallery', in Liverpool Mercury, 23 September 1879, p. 8;

‘The Poetic Phase in Modern British Art’, in The New Quarterly Magazine, vol. II, July and October 1879, p. 158;

C. Pascoe, ‘The Grosvenor Gallery Summer Exhibition’, in The Art Journal, vol. 5, 1879, p. 224;

Prescot Reporter, 6 December 1879, p. 5;

A.L. Baldry, Albert Moore: His Life and Work, London 1894, pp. 20, 48–49, 54 and 104;

Art Journal, 1894, pp. 88–89, reproduced;

Daily News, 19 January 1894, p. 5;

Weekly Dispatch, 21 January 1894, p. 6;

The Graphic, 27 January 1894, p. 106;

Illustrated London News, 3 February 1894, p. 131;

F.G. Stephens, ‘Mr Humphrey Roberts's Collection. Modern English Oil Pictures’, in Magazine of Art, 1896, pp. 44–47, reproduced (as Turquoise);

The Graphic, 10 April 1897, p. 447;

Manchester Evening News, 15 April 1899, p. 2;

T. Borenius, Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings at Harewood House and Elsewhere in the Collection of the Earl of Harewood, 1936, p. 147;

R. Asleson, Albert Moore, London 2000, pp. 137, 150, 153, 163 and 195, reproduced in colour pl. 147.

London, Grosvenor Gallery, Summer Exhibition, 1879, no. 172;

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Autumn Exhibition, 1879, no. 400;

Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887, no. 162, lent by Humphrey Roberts (as The Sisters);

London, Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of Pictures by the Late Mr. Albert Moore, 1894, no. 154;

London, Guildhall, Loan Collection of Pictures by Painters of the British School who have Flourished During Her Majesty's Reign, 1897, no. 93, lent by Humphrey Roberts;

New York, Durlacher Brothers, Painters of the Beautiful, 1964, no. 13.