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On 12 April 1853, at Rossetti's suggestion, the remaining members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood met for breakfast in Millais's studio. There they drew portraits of each other, to send out to Thomas Woolner in Australia; his emigration in 1852, along with Edward Bateman's and Bernhard Smith's, had inspired Ford Madox Brown's famous painting 'The Last of England' (in Birmingham's collection). Rossetti's drawing of Hunt captures that artist's slightly solemn and earnest character.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
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Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
12 April 1853. D G Rossetti (artist's hand) / to Thomas Woolner / Edward Bateman / Bernhard Smith [another hand] |
Inscription |
bottom right |
Handwritten |
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Pencil |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
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101 |
Russell-Coates Art Gallery, Bournemouth |
1951-06-04 - 1951-08-07 |
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40 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1973 - 1973 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
124 |
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo |
1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 |
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Christina Rossetti: 1830-1894 |
no. cat. |
National Portrait Gallery, London |
1994-11-18 - 1995-02-12 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti) |
17 |
Walker Art Gallery |
2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18 |
17 |
Van Gogh Museum |
2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
- |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18 |
- |
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: an Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life |
H C Marillier |
1899 |
George Bell and Sons, London |
no. 316. |
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City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings |
A E Whitley |
1939 |
Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby |
p. 350. |
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'Portraits to Australia' |
R Ormond |
January 1967 |
Apollo |
pp. 25-27. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne |
Virginia Surtees |
1971 |
Oxford, Clarendon Press |
vol. 1, no. 341, pp. 169-70; vol. 2, pl. 406. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 3B10. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Portraits |
Andrea Rose |
1981 |
Oxford Illustrated Press, Yeovil |
p. 91. |
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Christie's Sale Catalogue, 16 October 1981 |
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1981 |
Christie's, London |
p. 31. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz |
2003 |
Waanders, Zwolle |
p. 150. |
Provenance
Thomas Woolner; F W Cosens, Cosens Sale Christie's 17 May 1890 (lot 12 attributed to F G Stephens) £9.9s; Fairfax Murray. |
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