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Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
The Property of the Downside Abbey General Trust
DAVID ROBERTS, R.A. | INTERIOR OF THE CATHEDRAL OF SEVILLE DURING THE CEREMONY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
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The Property of the Downside Abbey General Trust
DAVID ROBERTS, R.A.
Edinburgh 1796 - 1864 London
INTERIOR OF THE CATHEDRAL OF SEVILLE DURING THE CEREMONY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
inscribed and dated, lower centre on a flagstone (inverted): HIC IACET/ DAVIDVS ROBERTVS/ Reqvi… pace : Amen…/ A.D. MDCCCXXXIII;
and inscribed and dated, lower left: Painted at Seville 1833
oil on canvas
unframed: 196.5 x 136.4 cm.; 77½ x 53¾ in.
framed: 212 x 152 cm.; 83½ x 59¾ in.
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Bought from the artist in 1834 by his friend David Ramsay Hay for £300;
By whom sold, Edinburgh, 1848 or 1849;
Lewis Loyd (1811–1891), Monks Orchard, Beckenham, Kent, by 1852;
By descent to Captain E.N.F. Loyd, Shaw Hill, Melksham, Wiltshire;
His sale, London, Christie’s, 30 April 1937, lot 80, to Baird for £16.16;
Mrs Innes Moore, 15 Royal Crescent, Bath;
By whom gifted to the Abbot of Downside, circa 1949.
David Roberts’ Record Books, 1821–1864, Yale Center for British Art, number 57;
The Athenaeum, 1834, p. 107;
Liverpool Mercury, 1834;
The Times, 5 February 1834, p. 4;
Literary Gazette, 8 February 1834, p. 98;
Mrs A. Jameson, A Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London, London 1844, p. 155;
The Athenaeum, 1857, p. 566;
Art Journal, 1858, p. 202;
J. Ballantine, The Life of David Roberts R.A., Edinburgh 1866, pp. 60–61, 64, 69, 74 and 248, no. 66;
D. and F. Irwin, Scottish Painters at Home and Abroad, 1700–1900, London 1975, p. 333;
H. Guiterman et al., Artist Adventurer. David Roberts 1796–1864, Scottish Arts Council, exh. cat., Edinburgh 1981, pp. 19–20;
K. Sim, David Roberts R.A., London 1984, pp. 94–97, 99 and 101–2;
H. Guiterman and B. Llewellyn, David Roberts, exh. cat., Oxford 1986, p. 110, cat. no. 102, reproduced in colour, p. 15, pl. 8.
F. Calvo Serraller and J. Portus, Iconografia de Sevilla, 1790–1868, vol. III, Madrid 1991.