ID 1305690
Lot 55 | FREDERIC, LORD LEIGHTON, P.R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1830-1896)
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 70 000
Samson and Delilah
Painted in 1859.
oil on canvas
54 7/8 x 54 7/8 in. (139.1 x 139.1 cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, by 1908.
with John A. Cooling, London.
Rindoko Museum, Tochigi.
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner, 2020.
Literature
'Society of British Artists,' The Observer, London, 27 March 1859, p. 5.
'Society of British Artists,' The Athenaeum, London, 2 April 1859, p. 457-458.
E. Rhys, Sir Frederic Leighton: an illustrated chronicle, London, 1895, p. 66.
E. Rhys, Frederic Lord Leighton, Late President of the Royal Academy of Arts, An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work, London, 1900, p. 18.
Catalogue of the Pictures and Sculptures in the National Gallery of British Art, London, 1900, p. 121.
A. Corkran, Little Book on Art: Frederic Leighton, London, 1904, p. 199.
E. Barrington, The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton, London, 1906, vol. II, pp. 39, 40, 47, 68, 74, 382.
E. Staley, Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A., London, 1906, pp. 28, 55-57, 233.
Masters in Art, Boston, 1908, vol. 9, p. 166.
R. Foss, The English Bible and British and American Art, New York, 1935, p. 15.
L. Ormond and R. Ormond, Lord Leighton, London, 1975, pp. 40, 49, 151, no. 40.
R. F. Perkins and W. J. Gavin, III, eds., The Boston Athenaeum, Art Exhibition Index, 1827-1874, Boston, 1980, p. 91.
C. Newall, The Art of Lord Leighton, London, 1990, pp. 28, 35.
S. Jones, 'Leighton's Debt to Michelangelo: The evidence of the drawings,' Lord Leighton 1830-1896 and Leighton House centenary celebration, London, 1996, p. 35.
C. Newall, Frederic, Lord Leighton 1830-1896: Painter and Sculptor of the Victorian Age, exh. cat., Munich and New York, 2009, p. 16.
Exhibited
London, Royal Society of British Artists, 1859, no. 213.
Liverpool, 35th Liverpool Academy Exhibition, 1859, no. 269.
Boston, Athenaeum Gallery, Thirty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Statuary, 1860, no. 289.
Artist: | Frederic Leighton (1830 - 1896) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Frederic Leighton (1830 - 1896) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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