Albert Bierstadt

signed ABierstadt (lower right)

39 ⅞ by 31 in.

101 by 78.7 cm. 

George Victor Drogo Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester and Consuelo Yznaga, Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire (acquired as a gift from the artist on 22 May 1876)

Alexander Montagu, 10th Duke of Manchester (acquired by descent from the above)

Knight, Frank & Rutley’s, Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire, 18 July 1949, lot 74 (consigned by the above)

Kimbolton School (formerly Kimbolton Castle), Huntingdonshire

Charles Bedell, Jr, Amsterdam and New York (acquired from the above in 1974)

Charles Bedell III, Denver, Colorado (acquired by descent from the above)

(with) Michael Saks, Denver, Colorado

Acquired from the above in November 2020 by the present owner

London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1879 

“Lord Mandeville’s Wedding,” New York Times, 23 May 1876

“Review,” Art Journal, London, July 1879, p. 142

Gordon Hendricks, Albert Bierstadt: Painter of the American West, New York, 1973, pp. 240-42

Exh. Cat., Alexander Gallery, New York, Albert Bierstadt: An Exhibition of Forty Paintings, 1983, no. 5

Nancy Anderson and Linda S. Ferber, Albert Bierstadt: Art & Enterprise, New York, 1990, p. 240

Simon Schama, “America’s Verdant Cross,” Wilson Quarterly, Washington D.C., Spring 1995, pp. 39-41

This work is included in the database for the Albert Bierstadt Catalogue Raisonné Project and is accompanied by a letter of opinion from Melissa Webster Speidel, President of the Bierstadt Foundation and Director of the Albert Bierstadt Catalogue Raisonné Project.