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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 29, 2023 | Bonhams | London, New Bond Street | 19th Century and British Impressionist Art | 52 | $****** - ****** | Forget-Me-Not |
paintings
84 x 63.5 cm (33.07 x 25 in)
oil on canvas
signed with monogram and dated "1883" (lower left)
The artist and his wife, Effie, Lady Millais.
Her bequest (will of 26 July 1897, Scottish Probate Office) to their son John Guille Millais.
Sold by John Guille Millais, Christie"s, 26 May 1900 (lot 100), bought by Sir James Kitson, Bart. (later 1st Baron Airedale), Gledhow Hall, Leeds, 1,500 guineas.
By descent to his daughter Emily Kitson.
Sold from her estate, Tower Lodge, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 28 November 1961, bought by her first cousin once removed Grosvenor Talbot Griffith, Old Swindon House, Swindon Village, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Bequeathed to the present owners.
Private collection, UK.
London, Royal Academy, 1883, no. 323.
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 1884, no. 51.
London, Royal Academy, Works by the late Sir John Everett Millais, Bart., President of the Royal Academy , 1898, no. 121.
Kitakyushu, Municipal Museum of Art & Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Millais , (exhibition organized by Tate, London), 2008, no. 55.
Athenaeum , 5 May 1883, p. 575.
Morning Post , 5 May 1883, p. 5.
Times , 5 May 1883, p. 12.
Illustrated London News , 5 May 1883, p. 438.
Illustrated London News , 12 May 1883, p. 470.
London Evening Standard , 24 May 1883, p. 2.
Graphic , 26 May 1883, p. 20.
The Age , (Melbourne, Australia), supplement, 23 June 1883, p. 2.
Art Journal , July 1883, p. 218.
Art Journal , August 1883, p. 254.
Beatrix Potter, journal entry, 11 November 1883, The Journal of Beatrix Potter 1881-1897 , transcribed from her code writings by Leslie Linder, 1989, p. 56.
Magazine of Art , volume VII, April 1884, p. xxviii.
Marion Harry Spielmann, Millais and His Works. With special reference to the exhibition at the Royal Academy 1898 . . . with a Chapter "Thoughts on Our Art of To-Day" by Sir J. E. Millais, Bart., PRA , Edinburgh and London, 1898, pp. 122 & 176 ("List of Oil Paintings", no. 252.).
John Guille Millais, The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, President of the Royal Academy , 1899, volume II, pp. 236 (reproduced) & 482 ("Chronological List of Millais" Work").
Sir John Everett Millais, PRA (British, 1829-1896)
Forget-Me-Not
signed with monogram and dated "1883" (lower left)
oil on canvas
84 x 63.5cm (33 1/16 x 25in).
