- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.208
- People
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George Frederick Watts, British (London, England 1817 - 1904 Limnerslease, Compton, England)
- Title
- Virginia Dalrymple (1850-1922)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1865
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230459
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 44.45 x 29.21 cm (17 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.l.: G.F.W. 1865
- Provenance
- Robert Henry Benson, Sussex; his sale [Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 21, 1929, no. 97] to Paterson. [Scott & Fowles, New York, January 8, 1930] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop ($2,200), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
Copy of Benson catalogue on Knoedler microfiche annotation notes that this was sold to Paterson (an employee of Scott & Fowles?). - Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.208
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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"G.F. Watts: framing myths and portraits", website, The Frame Blog, accessed May 14, 2020
Mary S. Watts, George Frederic Watts: the Annals of an Artist's Life, The Macmillan Company (London, England, 1912), vol. I, pp. 155-157; vol. II, p. 117
Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 96
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 133, repr. as no. 85
Francesca Mitchell, "Technical Study of the Paintings by George Frederic Watts in the Collection at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, July 1990), Unpublished, pp. 1-22 passim
Mark Bills and Barbara Bryant, G.F. Watts: Victorian Visionary, exh. cat., Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven/London, 2008), under no. 42, p. 182
- Exhibition History
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Annual Exhibition, 1872, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/01/1872 - 12/31/1872
Winter Exhibition: Works by the Late George Frederick Watts, R.A., O.M. and the Late Frederick Sandys, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 10/01/1905 - 12/31/1905
Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
Pre-Raphaelite and Early French Symbolist Art in the Fogg Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/16/1973 - 02/25/1973
The Pre-Raphaelites: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1980 - 07/15/1980
- Related Works
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