Frank Moss Bennett

Purchased from the artist by P. A. Valentine, New York, c. 1900;

His estate sale, American Art Association, New York, 7-9 March 1923, lot 48 (as The Greek Runner Ladas);

Where acquired by ‘K. Austin;’ 

Roses card consignor and auctioneer book annotation: Kirby; → is this name similarity too much of a coincidence:

Sale, Property of a New York Collector, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17-19 April 1941, lot 272 (as The Greek Runner Ladas);

Roses card Buye is Moe van Brink but Joseph H. Colyer, Jr is annotated in auctioneers book;

With F. Schnittjer & Son, New York;

Their sale, O’Reilly’s Plaza Art Galleries, New York, 21 January 1943, lot 470 (as The Greek Runner Ladas);

Sale, Bonhams Skinner, Marlborough, 16 November 2022, lot 25 (as The Athenian Messenger Pheidippides Delivers News of the Victory at Marathon);

Where acquired by the present owner.

"List of Awards," The British Architect: A Journal of Architecture and its Accessory Arts, vol. LII, London, 15 December 1899.

"Mr. Chamberlin on Art," The Builder, 16 December 1899, p. 551.

"Studio Talk, London," The Studio, vol. 19, Charles Holmes (ed.), no. 83, 5 February 1900, p. 45.

"Studio Talk, London," The International Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, vol. 10, New York 1899–1900, pp. 45, 121, illustrated.

Aubyn Trevor-Battye, "The Royal Academy Gold Medal Picture," The Artist, vol. XXVII, Truslove, Hanson & Combe, Ltd., New York, Supplement to March 1900, unpaginated, illustrated.

The Railway News, vol. LXXIII, London, January–June 1900, p. 170.

"The Royal Academy," The Athenaeum Journal, 26 May 1900, no. 3787, p. 663.

Pall Mall Magazine Extra: Pictures of 1900, Pall Mall Publication, London 1900, p. 29.

H. Frantz, "The Royal Academy and ‘Prix de Rome’ Competitions," The Magazine of Art, Cassel and Company Ltd., London, Paris, New York & Melbourne 1900, p. 183, illustrated.

"The Pictures of 1900," The Royal Academy, p. 34, illustrated.

The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, Clowes and Sons, Ltd., London 1900, no. 636, p. 44.

The Academy Notes 1900, Chatto and Windus, London, May 1900, p. 636.

"Royal Academy Prize Distribution," The Artist, Truslove, Hanson & Combe, Ltd., New York 1900, pp. 339, 350, illustrated.

"Modern Oil Paintings, British," The Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum, Chicago, Illinois, August 1901, no. 344, p. 198 (lent by P. A. Valentine; reprinted 1904).

Martin Hardie, "Golf," Macmillan’s Magazine, vol. LXXXV, Macmillan and Co., Limited, New York, November 1901, p. 47.

The Year’s Art, 1901, p. 71.

R. Tait Mackenzie, "A Study of the Face in Breathlessness," Outing, vol. 39, The Outing Publishing Company, New York, 1902, p. 450.

"Have You Missed Any of These Beautiful Pictures, Another Masterpiece for Journal Readers, Don’t Overlook This One," Indianapolis Journal, vol. 54, no. 115, Indianapolis, 24 April 1904, p. 18.

"The Royal Academy Gold Medal," The Strand Magazine, vol. XXXII, February 1904, p. 72, illustrated.

J. E. Hodgson and Fred A. Eaton, "Gold Medalists and Travelling Students in Painting," The Royal Academy and Its Members, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1905, p. 386.

Algernon Graves, "Frank M. Bennett," The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Work from Its Foundation in 1719 to 1904, vol. I, Henry Graves & Co. Ltd., London, 1905, p. 180, no. 636.

The Boy’s Own Annual, vol. 29, Boy’s Own Paper Office, London, 1906–1907, p. 521, illustrated.

"Death at the Moment of Victory, The Story of Ladas the Famous Spartan Runner," The Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home, vol. 27, Great New Street, London, 20 October 1906, p. 69.

Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects: A Supplement to General Catalogue, List of Loans, Chicago, February 1907, p. 289, no. 1151 (lent by P. A. Valentine).

Walter T. Roberts, "Story Pictures: The Art of Frank Bennett," Pearson’s Magazine, vol. XXXIV, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., London, July–December 1912, p. 459.

Edward S. Ellis and Charles F. Horne, "The Victory of Death," The Story of the Greatest Nations with One Thousand of the World’s Most Famous Events Portrayed in Word and Picture, vol. I, Francis R. Niglutsch, New York 1913, illustrated no. I-93.

"Frank Moss Bennett," Clifton College Register 1862–1962, S. P. Beachcroft, Bristol, 1962, p. 32.

American Art Annual, vol. 20, The American Federation of Arts, Washington, D.C., 1923, p. 291.

Bernard Dolman, ed., "Frank Moss Bennett," A Dictionary of Contemporary British Artists, 1929, Art Trade Press Limited, London, 1929, p. 35.

Frank Lewis, "Frank Moss Bennett," A Dictionary of British Historical Painters, Leigh-on-Sea, 1979, p. 12.

Sally Mitchell, "Frank Moss Bennett," The Dictionary of British Equestrian Artists, Antique Collector’s Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1985, p. 117.

J. Johnson and A. Greutzner, eds., "Frank Moss Bennett," The Dictionary of British Artists 1880–1940, Antique Collector’s Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1988, p. 53.

Christopher Wood, "Frank Moss Bennett," The Dictionary of Victorian Painters, Antique Collector’s Club, Suffolk, 1989, p. 45.

Brian Stewart, "Frank Moss Bennett," The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920, Antique Collector’s Club, Woodbridge, 1997, p. 95.

Carol Fitzgerald, "Frank Moss Bennett," Handbook of Modern British Painting and Printmaking 1900–1990, Ashgate Publishing, Abingdon, Oxon, 1998, unpaginated.

Maureen Elizabeth Son, Frank Moss Bennett, 1874–1952: The Forgotten Artist, Son Publishing, Enfield, Middlesex, 2006, pp. 3–4, 87, illustrated.

London, Royal Academy School, Royal Academy School Competitions for 1899 (awarded Gold Medal and Travelling Scholarship)

London, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, May–August 1900, no. 636 (partial label from the exhibition on the reverse of the stretcher)

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, long-term loan, 1901–1907 (lent by P. A. Valentine)