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This is a smaller version of a painting known as 'L'Enfant Perdu' which once belonged to Evelyn Waugh (sold Chrisite's 21 June 1985 lot. 82). In correspondance with the Art Gallery, Waugh suggests that the Birmingham painting might be an earlier study for his picture. His version differed in several resepects including the addition of the figure of a woman on the far left. In 1955 Waugh and his children made a special expedition to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. He wrote of the visit in his diary noting that they were taken 'to the cellarage where, in the manner of modern museums, gems were hidden' ('Evelyn Waugh: A Pioneer Collector,' Connoisseur, vol. 28, September 1981).
- Presented by Mr and Mrs Cotterill Deykin in memory of their son Llewyllyn, Art Assistant at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (1923-25), 1926.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Arthur Hughes |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
Arthur Hughes |
Signature |
bottom left |
Painted |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Drawings and Paintings by the Pre-Raphaelites and Others |
53 |
Leicester Galleries, London |
1921-09 - 1921-09 |
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The Victorian Romantics |
113 |
Leicester Galleries, London |
1949 - 1949 |
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Ten Decades - A Review of British Taste 1851-1951 |
40 |
Royal Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street, London |
1951 - 1951 |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
87 |
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle |
1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07 |
87 |
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16 |
87 |
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15 |
87 |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02 |
87 |
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia |
1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10 |
87 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
Catalogue of Pictures & Drawings at 22 Vernon Terrace, and 11 Compton Terrace, October 1876 to [? 15 December 1886] |
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Manuscript in the Tate Archive, London |
52 |
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The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh |
Michael Davie |
1976 |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London |
p. 738 |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
Stephen Wildman |
1995 |
Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia |
p. 260; repr. p. 261 |
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Arthur Hughes: His Life and Works |
Leonard Roberts |
1997 |
Antique Collectors' Club |
Cat. 87.2, p. 170; repr. pl. 59 |
Provenance
Purchased for £50 in 1866 by John Hamilton Trist; Trist sale, Christie's, 9 April 1892 (lot. 67, as 'The Wanderer Found'); bought for 15 gns. by John Hingston; thence in 1916 to his son John Hingston, Jr.; bought from him c. 1919 by Ernest Brown & Phillips, and still with them in 1921. Mr and Mrs Cotterill Deykin; gifted by them in memory of their son Llewyllyn, in 1926 to Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. |
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