Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema O.M., R.A.

Holbrook Gaskell commissioned from the artist in 1885; sale, Christie's, London, June 24, 1909, Lot 96

Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale)

Barnet Lewis, Esq., Hildenborough, Kent; sale, Christie's, London, February 28, 1930, Lot 59

Nathan Mitchell, London (acquired at the above sale)

Cooling Galleries, Ltd., London (acquired from the above)

Mr. and Mrs. C.B. Powell, Toronto, Canada (acquired from the above in 1930)

M. Newman, London (acquired from the above in 1977)

Mrs. John Milne, Galgary, Canada (acquired from the above)

Joan Michaelman, New York (acquired from the above in 1979)

London, Royal Academy, 1886, No. 818

Manchester, Jubilee Exhibition, 1887, No. 313

Glasgow, International Exhibition, 1888, No. 321

Southport, Centenary National Art Treasures Exhibition, 1892, No. 349

Birmingham, Royal Society of Artists, 31st Spring Exhibition, 1896, No. 344

Warington, 1898

Glasgow, International Exhibition, 1901, No. 511

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, 1904, No. 170

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 1906, No. 946

Utah, Brigham Young University, 1979, No. 30

Athenaeum, Part I, 1886, p. 589
Illustrated London News, July 31, 1886, p. 131, (illustrated as Rose of all the Roses)
Art Journal, 1886, p. 250 (as Rose of all the Roses)
Wilson, 1896, p. 102, illustrated
Fedor I. Bulgakov, Alma Tadema, Petrograd, 1897, illustrated opposite p. 32
Percy Cross Standing, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 1905, p. 34, illustrated (as Rose of all the Roses)
Rudolf Dircks, ``The Later Works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema,'' Art Journal, Christmas Issue, 1910,
p. 31 (as Rose of all the Roses)
Gardner Teall, ``The Art of Alma-Tadema,'' Hearst's International, XXII, 1912, p. 129, illustrated
Henry Currie Marillier, Christies, 1766-1925, London, 1926, p. 123
Vern G. Swanson, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 1990, p. 230, no. 310, illustrated p. 427

Vern Swanson, Catalogue raisonné of the Paintings by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema with an Introductory Biography, thesis for Ph.D., Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1994, p. 143, illustrated Kathryn Manzo, "Collectors and their Collection", Classical Realism Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1997 (for a color reproduction)