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

Commissioned by Max Waechter of Terrace House, Richmond, Surrey, (Alma-Tadema’s receipt to Max Waechter for £2,200, 15 April 1890 was formerly attached to the verso) until his death in 1924 and presumably thence to his son Sir Harry Sedan Waechter until his death in 1929 and thence by further descent

Christie’s, London, 14 February 1941, lot 63, bought by Gooden & Fox on behalf of Sir Jeremiah Colman for 200 gns

His executor’s sale, Christie’s, London, 18 September 1942, lot 56 to Nathan Mitchell for 170gns

Mrs Lydia Lansdown, by whom sold Christie’s, London, 26 April 1946, lot 132 to Martin Newman & Co., London for 300gns

F. Blythe, 1946

with Martin Newman & Co., London by 10 June 1949

with Rayner MacConnal, London 1949

L.M. Mason & Williams & Sons, by May 1967

Sold to Spanierman Galleries, New York, July 1967 by whom sold to Allen Funt, New York, later in 1967 for £2,200

His sale, Sotheby’s, Belgravia, 6 November 1973, lot 25 where bought by J.B. Panchaud, Vaud, Switzerland from whose estate bought privately by a private collector

London, Royal Academy, 1890, no.324

Birmingham, Royal Society of Artists, 1890, no.366

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 1907, no.989

London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1913, no.172

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 1973, no.25

Leeuwarden, Het Princesshof, July 1974, no.40

Birmingham Daily Post, 17 February 1890, p.5

Manchester Courier, 18 February 1890, p.5

Weekly Irish Times, 22 February 1890, p.2

Dover Express, 14 March 1890, p.2

Dorking & Leatherhead Advertiser, 15 March 1890, p.3

Cumberland & Westmorland Herald, 15 March 1890, p.4

East & South Devon Advertiser, 15 March 1890, p.3

Christchurch Times, 15 March 1890, p.7

North London News, 15 March 1890, p.5

Evening News & Post, 17 March 1890, p.2

Mid Sussex Times, 18 March 1890, p.3

Uttoxeter New Era, 19 March 1890, p.5

The Cornubian & Redruth Times, 21 March 1890, p.6

Home News for India, China and the Colonies, 4 April 1890, p.20

Glasgow Herald, 8 April 1890, p.5

Bolton Evening News, 1 May 1890, p.4

Derby Daily Telegraph, 1 May 1890, p.2

Daily Telegraph & Courier, 3 May 1890, p.3

Morning Post, 3 May 1890, p.5

The Scotsman, 3 May 1890 , p.9

Pall Mall Gazette, 3 May 1890, p.2

Sporting Gazette, 3 May 1890, p.9

Illustrated London News, 3 May 1890, p. 546

The Scotsman, 3 May 1890, p.9

South Wales Daily News, 5 May 1890, p.6

Cheltenham Examiner, 7 May 1890, p.8

South London Chronicle, 10 May 1890, p.7

Leeds Mercury, 10 May 1890, p.3

Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 11 May 1890, p.8

Reading Observer, 17 May 1890, p.2

Buckinghamshire Examiner, 17 May 1890, p.3

Academy, 24 May 1890, p. 360.

Illustrated London News, 31 May 1890, p. 518.

Lahore Civil & Military Gazette, 3 June 1890, p.6

South Bucks Standard, 4 July 1890, p.8

Northern Whig, 20 October 1890, p. 6

Pall Mall Gazette, ‘extra’, ‘Pictures of the Year’, 1890, p. 73, illustrated.

M.H. Bell, Royal Academy Yearbook, 1890, p. 14, illustrated.

H. Blackburn (ed.), Academy Notes, 1890, p. 12.

Annual Cyclopedia, XV, 1890, p. 313.

Magazine of Art, 1890, p. 219.

Royal Academy Illustrated, 1890, no. 324, illustrated.

Munsey’s Magazine, XV, New York, May 1896, p. 55, illustrated.

P.C. Standing, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema O.M., R.A., London, 1905, p. 74 and 99, illustrated.

The Queen, 21 September 1907, p.25

R. Dircks, ‘The later works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema O.M., R.A., R.W.S., Art Journal Supplementary monograph, Christmas issue, December 1910, p. 15 and 31, illustrated.

Exhibition of works by the late Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA, OM, Winter Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat., London, 1913, p. 47.

Apollo, November 1946, illustrated in colour.

C. Forbes, Victorians in Togas: Paintings by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema from the Collection of Allen Funt, exh. cat., New York, 1973, p. 27 and 41, no. 25, illustrated.

J. Romjin & F.L. Bastet, De Wereld van Alma Tadema, exh. cat., 1974, p. 15, illustrated.

Academy Editions, Alma-Tadema, London, 1977, pl. 33. V.G. Swanson, Alma-Tadema: The Painter of Victorian Vision of the Ancient World, London, 1977, p. 40, illustrated.

C. Wood, Olympian Dreamers, London, 1983, p. 125, illustrated.

R. Ash, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 1989, pl. 21.

V.G. Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1990, p. 241, no. 339, illustrated, p. 440.

R.J. Barrow, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 2001, p. 99 and 144.

E. Prettejohn and P. Trippi (eds.), Lawrence Alma-Tadema, - At Home in Antiquity, London and New York, 2016, p.193