AlLBERT JOSEPH MOORE, A.R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1841-1893)

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Lot 24 | AlLBERT JOSEPH MOORE, A.R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1841-1893)
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AlLBERT JOSEPH MOORE, A.R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1841-1893)
Forget-Me-Nots
signed with the artist's anthemion device (in the architecture at lower left)
oil on canvas
15 ½ x 6 ¼ in. (39.2 x 15.9 cm.)
Moore, A. J.
Painted circa 1879.



Provenance

with Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1881.

Eliza Heighat Mitchell (1857-1926), Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Her sale; Christie's, London, 1 February 1918, lot 29.

Wood, acquired at the above sale.

Private collection, London, by 1969.

Charles Handley-Read (1916-1971) and Lavinia Handley-Read (1917-1971), London.

Thomas Stainton (1918-1985), her brother, by descent from the above.

with The Fine Art Society, London, by November 1989.

H. Christopher Whittle (b. 1947) and Priscilla Rattazzi (b. 1956), New York, by 1996.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 6 May 1999, lot 41.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

'The Grosvenor Gallery, Second Notice,' The London Times, London, 30 May 1881, p. 6.

'Fine Art. Grosvenor Gallery Exhibition. Concluding Notice.,' The Illustrated London News, London, 18 June 1881, p. 602.

A. L. Baldry, Albert Moore, His Life and Works, London, 1894, pp. 52, 104.

J. Maas, Victorian Painters, London, 1969, pp. 202-203, illustrated.

R. Asleson, Albert Moore, London, 2000, pp. 149, 222, 224, pl. 144, illustrated.

C. Denney, At the Temple of Art, the Grosvenor Gallery, 1877-1890, Cranbury, NJ, 2000, p. 124.

A. Villari, Albert Moore: L'Aesthetic movement e il mito della bellezza nell'Inghilterra vittoriana, Milan, 2012, pp. 39, 154, pl. 40, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Grosvenor Gallery, 2 May-31 July 1881, no. 46.

New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, A Palace of Art in Victorian England: The Grosvenor Gallery, 2 March-28 April 1996; also Denver, Denver Museum of Art, 1 June-25 August 1996; and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, 13 September-3 November 1996, no. 40, as Forget-me-not.

San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, on long-term loan, August 2008-January 2011.
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