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

Holman Hunt retouched and restretched the painting in 1891 shortly after it was bought by the Birmingham industrialist and MP William Kenrick (1831-1919) (see museum files).A smaller oil painting of the same subject is in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery.

Presented by the family of Wilfred Byng Kendrick, 1962.
© Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	William Holman Hunt	-

Inscriptions

Type	Position(s)	Method	Date(s)
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Monogram	bottom left	Handwritten	1854-61

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
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231	Royal Academy, London	1861 - 1861

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30	Liverpool Academy	1861 - 1861

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1862	International Exhibition	1862 - 1862

Exhibition of Modern Works of Art
-	Birmingham Society of Artists	1863-09-03 - 1864-01-16

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49	Grosvenor Galleries, London	1857 - 1857

William Holman Hunt
21	Leicester Galleries, London	1906 - 1906

On loan
-	Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery	1920 - 1924

Works belonging to The Friends of the Gallery
79	Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery	1962-02-16 - 1962-03-11

British Royal Family Exhibition
99	Special Gallery, Seibu Department Store, Toyko	1967-10-06 - 1967-10-18

William Holman Hunt
28, repr	Walker Art Gallery, Liverpoool	1969-03-25 - 1969-04-29
28, repr	Victoria and Albert Museum	1969-05-15 - 1969-06-22

The Pre-Raphaelites
86, repr	Tate Gallery, London	1984-03-07 - 1984-05-28

Europa und der Orient 800-1900
14/21 repr	Martin Gropius- Bau Museum, Berlin	1989-05-28 - 1989-08-27

Espejismos del Medio Oriente: Delacroix a Moreau
54	Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico City	1999-11 - 2000-04

Tales from the Arabian Nights: A Victorian Fantasy
no cat. no	Leighton House, London	1997-12-15 - 1998-02-28

Orientalism British Art and the Islamic World
-	Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, US	2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28
-	Tate Britain, London	2008-06-04 - 2008-08-31
-	Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation Pera Museum, Instanbul, Turkey	2008-09-23 - 2009-01-11
-	Sharjah Museum, United Arab Emirates	2009-02-18 - 2009-04-30

Literature

Author(s)	Date(s)	Publisher	Pages
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F G Stephens	29 September 1860 & 4 May 1861	Athenaeum	p.424 & pp.599-600

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T Taylor	4 May 1861	The Times	p.12

Drypoint
	18 May 1861	Spectator	p.531

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	1 June 1861	Art Journal	pp.168-9

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	25 May 1861	Saturday Review XI	p.531

Weldon's Register
	1 June 1861	-	p.29

The Portfolio VI
	1875	William Holman Hunt	p.45

Collection of C P Matthews
	1887	Magazine of Art	p.337

Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
William Holman Hunt	1905	Macmillan	Vol 1, pp.380 n., 385-88; Vol 2pp.16, 17 repr, 105

William Holman Hunt in Kunstler-Monographien
	1907	Bielefeld and Leipzig	pl.50, p.52

William Holman Hunt
Judith Bronkhurst	2006	Yale University Press, New Haven and London	Cat. 83

Provenance

Bought Charles P. Matthew by 1877; sold by his executors, Christie's 6 June 1891 (61); bought Agnew on behalf of William Kenrick, MP, Birmingham, £635 5s.; by descent to W Byng Kenrick; presented to Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1962.