Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource : The Collection

This painting of a romantic young Rossetti was painted shortly after his death in 1882. It subsequently hung in Holman Hunt's 'drawing room ever since it was painted'. It was based on a chalk drawing (1853) of an almost identical size, now in the collection of Manchester City Art Gallery.

Purchased to commemorate the services of Alderman W. Byng Kenrick, 1961.
© Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	William Holman Hunt	-

Inscriptions

Type	Position(s)	Method	Date(s)
18 WHH 53 // Portrait of Dante G Rossetti / W.H.H. (verso) / Belongs to Gladys Joseph (verso, by the artist's daughter)
-	middle right	Handwritten	-

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
Liverpool Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures: The Thirteenth
533	Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool	1883-09-03 - 1883-12-01

Summer Exhibition
265	Grosvenor Gallery	1884-05-01 - 1885-07-31

Autumn Exhibition
476	Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham	1884-09-04 - 1885-01-10

Twenty-Fourth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists
203	Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts	1885-02-03 - 1885-04-27

The Pictures of Mr Holman Hunt
9	Fine Art Society, London	1886-03-15 - 1886-07-31

La Libre Esthetique
297	Brussels	1895-02-23 - 1895-03-01

Twenty-Fourth Exhibition of Modern Pictures
115	Dudley Gallery, Piccadilly (New English Art Club, London)	1900-04-08 - 1900-05

Ruskin Exhibition
189	Manchester City Art Gallery	1904-03-23 - 1904-05-14

Exhibition of the Collected Works of W Holman Hunt, OM, DCL
23	The Leicester Galleries	1906-10-06 - 1906-11-17

The Collected Works of W Holman Hunt OM, DCL
41	Manchester City Art Gallery	1906-12-03 - 1907-01-27

Collected Works of the Art of W Holman Hunt OM, DCL
42	Walker Art Galllery, Liverpool	1907-02-02 - 1907-03-02

Liverpool Academy of Arts, Centenary Exhibition of Pictures and other Works by Members
83A	Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool	1910-05-30 - 1910-06-25

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
39	Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery	1947-01-01 - 1947-01-01

Paintings and Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Followers
18	Russell-Cotes Gallery, Bournemouth	1951-06-04 - 1951-08-07

British Portraits
434	Royal Academy, London	1956-11-24 - 1957-03-03

Peintures et aquarelles anglaises 1700-1900
70	Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyons	1966-10-23 - 1966-11-20

William Holman Hunt
56, repro	Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool	1969-03-25 - 1969-04-29
56, repro	Victoria and Albert Museum, London	1969-05-15 - 1969-06-22

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from Birmingham Musuems and Art Gallery
26, repro	Seattle Art Museum, and tour	1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
4	Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo (and Japan tour)	1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14

The Pre-Raphaelites
1	Nationalmuseum, Stockholm	2009-02-26 - 2009-05-24

Literature

Author(s)	Date(s)	Publisher	Pages
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	1 May 1884	The Times	p. 6.

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	10 May 1884	Academy	vol. 25, p. 604.

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	10 May 1884	Athenaeum	p. 604.

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	24 May 1884	Illustrated London News	vol. 84, p. 514.

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	7 June 1884	Spectator	p. 745.

'Mr Holman Hunt: His Work and Career'
	April 1886	Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	p. 553.

'Mr W Holman Hunt's Pictures in Bond Street'
	27 March 1886	Atheneum	p. 428

'Les Preraphaelites Anglais'
	1 September and 1 November 1887	Gazette des Beaux-Arts	vol. 36, p. 181, repro.

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	8 April 1900	Observer	p. 6.

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	10 April 1900	Daily Telegraph	p. 7.

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	14 April 1900	Athenaeum	p. 472.

Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
William Holman Hunt	1905	Macmillan	vol. 1, facing p. 337, p. 341; vol. 2. pp 334-35.

William Holman Hunt in Kunstler-Monographien
O J M von Schleinitz	1907	Bielefeld and Leipzig	vol. 88, p. 89, pl. 86.

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
	1995	Art Services International	p. 128.

Frameworks: Form, Function and Ornament in European Picture Frames
	1996	-	p. 383.

William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonne
	2006	Yale University Press, New Haven and London	p. 138.

The Pre-Raphaelites
	2009	Nationalmuseum, Stockholm	cat.1, p.151