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JOHN GEORGE NAISH (BRITISH, 1824-1905)

Lot 111
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ID 964864
Lot 111 | JOHN GEORGE NAISH (BRITISH, 1824-1905)
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$ 50 000 – 80 000
JOHN GEORGE NAISH (BRITISH, 1824-1905)
Midsummer Night's Fairies
signed with the artist's monogram (lower right); titled 'Midsummer Night's Fairies/Painted by John George Naish/.../Royal Crescent/Notting Hill/London' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
13 7/8 x 18 in. (35 x 45.7 cm.)
Naish, J. G.
Painted circa 1856.



Provenance

with Christopher Wood, Inc., New York.

Edmund J. (1912-1988) and Suzanne McCormick, Dobbs Ferry, NY, acquired directly from the above, 1978.

Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 28 February 1990, lot 156, illustrated and on the cover, as Midsummer Fairies.

Private collection, acquired at the above sale.

Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 24 October 1996, lot 222, illustrated.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

'The British Institution,' The Art Journal, no. 18, London, 1856, p. 84, as Midsummer Fairies.

J. Dafforne, 'The Works of John George Naish,' The Art Journal, vol. 1, New York, 1875, p. 326, as Midsummer-Fairies.

C. E. Clement and L. Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works, Boston, 1885, p. 181, as Midsummer Fairies.

B. Phillpotts, Fairy Paintings, London, 1978, p. 15, pl. 25, illustrated, as Midsummer Fairies.

B. Phillpotts, 'Victorian Fairy Painting,' The Antique Collector, v. 49, no. 7, London, July 1978, p. 80, illustrated, as Midsummer Fairies.

C. Forbes, 'McCormick's Victorian Reapings: An American Collection of British Nineteenth-Century Pictures,' Nineteenth Century, vol. 6, Philadelphia, summer 1980, pp. 40, 45, illustrated, as Midsummer Fairies.

L. Sonntag, Butterflies, London, 1980, illustrated pp. 22-23, as Midsummer Fairies.

M. M. Kahmi, 'Victorian Treasures: Paintings from the McCormick Collection,' Aristos, the Journal of Esthetics, vol. 3, no. 4, 4 March 1987, pp. 3, 5.

E. Stiles, A Small Book of Fairies, Rohnert Park, CA, 1995, pp. 3, 30, 31, 85, illustrated and illustrated with a detail, as The Midsummer Fairies.

Fairies: An Anthology of Verse and Prose, London, 1996, p. 64, illustrated on the front jacket with the image inverted.

C. G. Silver, Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness, Oxford, 1999, p. 161, as Midsummer Fairies.

D. and P. Cope, Postcards from the Nursery: The Illustrators of Children's Books and Postcards 1900-1950, London, 2000, p. 29, as Elves and Fairies: A Midsummer Night's Dream.

C. Wood, Fairies in Victorian Painting, Suffolk, 2000, pp. 124-125, illustrated, as Elves and Fairies: A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Scozia, Milan, 2001, p. 315, illustrated with a detail, p. 57, as The Midsummer Fairies.

L. Forsberg, Worlds Beyone: Minatures and Victorian Fiction, 11 May 2021, n.p., as Elves and Fairies: A Midsummer Night's Dream.



Exhibited

London, British Institution, 1856, no. 306, as Midsummer Fairies.

New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, The Edmund J. and Suzanne McCormick Collection, 11 January-26 February 1984, pp. 64-5, no. 25, illustrated, as Midsummer Fairies.

Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, English Idylls: The Edmund J. and Suzanne McCormick Collection of Victorian Art, 9 January-13 March 1988, p. 3, no. 30, as Midsummer Fairies.

London, Royal Academy, Victorian Fairy Painting, 13 November 1997-8 February 1998; also Iowa City, University of Iowa Museum of Art, 28 February-24 May 1998; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 10 June-13 September 1998; New York, The Frick Collection, 13 October 1998-17 January 1999, p. 137, no. 60, as Elves and Fairies: A Midsummer Night's Dream.

San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, on long-term loan, May 2002-May 2007.
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
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