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Property from a British Private Collection

Sir William Blake Richmond, R.A.

Behold the Bridegroom Cometh

Lot Closed

December 15, 03:14 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a British Private Collection

Sir William Blake Richmond, R.A.

British

1842 - 1921

Behold the Bridegroom Cometh


oil on canvas

Unframed: 180 by 325cm., 70¾ by 128in.

Framed: 211 by 355cm., 82 by 139¾in

Purchased from the artist in 1903 by Mrs Ada Susan Tatham for the Municipal Art Gallery (now Tatham Art Gallery), de-accessioned in November 1961 and sold by public tender in 1962 or 1963 where purchased by the father of the present owners

London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1881, no. 75

Munich, International Exhibition, 1888

London, New Gallery, The Works of Sir William Blake Richmond, 1900-1901, no. 3

Grosvenor Notes, 1881
Athenaeum, 7 May 1881, p. 629
Portfolio, 1881, p. 103
Times, 2 May 1881
The Spectator, 28 May 1881, p. 701
Illustrated London News, 1881
Pall Mall Gazette, 1881
A.L. Baldry, ‘Sir W. B. Richmond, K.C.B., R.A.-1’, in The Magazine of Art, February 1901, p.147, illustrated p. 149
Harold F.B. Wheeler, ‘The Religion of an Artist – An Interview with Sir William B. Richmond K.C.B., R.A.’, in Good Words, December 1905, volume 46, p. 403
A.M.W. Stirling, The Richmond Papers – From the Correspondence and Manuscripts of Sir George Richmond. R.A. and his Son Sir William Richmond. R.A., K.C.B., London, 1926, pp. 258
Simon Reynolds, William Blake Richmond – An Artist’s Life 1842-1921, Wilby, 1995, pp. 125, 145, 207, 342, 354, illustrated colour plate. XXI between pages 290-291