John Roddam Spencer Stanhope

The artist's studio

Thence by family descent (sale: London, Sotheby's Belgravia, London, 18 April 1978, lot 52)

Barry Friedman Gallery, New York

Purchased from the above by a private collector, circa 1982

Thence by descent to the present owners

London, Royal Academy, 1872, no. 270;

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Autumn Exhibition, 1872, no. 148.

The Exhibition of The Royal Academy of Arts, exh. cat., London 1872, p. 16, no. 270;

'The Royal Academy Exhibition’, The Illustrated London News, 25 May 1872, pp. 502–3;

'The Royal Academy', The Saturday Review, 18 May 1872, pp. 632–33;

'The Royal Academy', The Examiner, 22 June 1872, p. 9;

'Pictures at the Royal Academy', The Pall Mall Gazette, 18 July 1872, pp. 10–11;

The Burlington Magazine, 1978, XXVIII, p. 120;

P.B. Trippi, ‘John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope. The Early Years of a Second Generation Pre-Raphaelite 1858–73’, M.A. Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1993;

S. Poë, 'Roddy, Maria, and Ned (And Georgie, Topsy, Janey, and Gabriel): An Entanglement', The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, New Series 9, 2000, pp. 69–87.