Frederic, Lord Leighton, P.R.A.

Purchased from the Royal Academy exhibition by James Stewart Hodgson, Esq., in 1862

His sale: Christie’s, London, 3 June 1893, lot 25 bought ‘Graham’

Sale: ('Property of a Lady of Title'), Christie’s, London, 4-5 October 1973, lot 196

Purchased at the above sale by Hartnoll & Eye, London

Purchased from the above by Joe Setton

Sale: Sotheby’s, London, 19 June 1990, lot 59

Purchased at the above sale by Asil Nadir

London, Royal Academy, 1862, no. 237

Manchester City Art Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Brooklyn Museum, Victorian High Renaissance, 1978-9, no. 43

Weekly Dispatch, 11 May 1862, p. 58

Liverpool Albion, 12 May 1862, p. 16

Daily Telegraph and Courier, 12 May 1862, p. 5

Brighton Gazette, 15 May 1862, p. 8

The Queen, 5 June 1862, p. 17

Illustrated London News, 17 May 1862, p. 3

John Bull, 24 May 1862, p. 11

Athenaeum, 1862, pp. 232, 602

Art Journal, 1862, p. 133

Ernest Rhys, Sir Frederic Leighton, Bart, P.R.A., 1895, p. 66

Ernest Rhys, Frederic Lord Leighton, Late President of the Royal Academy of Art, 1899, pp. 16, 84

Alice Corkran, Frederic Leighton, 1904, pp. 48, 200

Mrs Russell Barrington, The Life, Letters and Works of Frederic Leighton, 1906, Vol. II, p. 383

Leonée and Richard Ormond, Lord Leighton, 1975, cat. no. 82, pp. 49, 50, 184

Christopher Newall, The Art of Lord Leighton, 1990, p. 36

Stephen Jones, Christopher Newall, Leonée Ormond, Richard Ormond and Benedict Read, Frederic Leighton 1830-1896, 1996, p. 128

Allen Staley, The New Painting of the 1860s – Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement, 2011, p. 238