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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

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

London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1881, no. 75

Munich, International Exhibition, 1888

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