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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.186
People
Ford Madox Brown, British (Calais, France 1821 - 1893 London, England)
Frame by M. Grieve Co.
Title
La Rose de l'Infante (Effie Stillman)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of Effie Stillman ("La Rose de l'Infante")
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1876
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230454

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
46 x 35.9 cm (18 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: u.l.: FMB - 76

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Albert Wood (1876-1936), sold; [through Sotheby’s, London, October 20, 1936, lot 57, £68]; to L. Thomas Agnew (1936-?), sold; [to Arnold Seligman & Trevor, London (by 1937), sold]; to Grenville L. Winthrop (1937-1943), bequeathed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Notes:
1. Although it was originally thought that the work was painted in 1876 for William J. Stillman, the father of the subject, recent scholarship suggests that it was actually painted for Albert Wood. In Volume I of the 2010 Ford Madox Brown catalogue raisonné Mary Bennett quotes from a letter written by Ford Madox Brown to Charles Rowley in 1876 and includes an excerpt from the artist’s account book, both of which identify Albert Wood as the intended original recipient. In addition, the artist’s account book states that the painting was to be given to Albert Wood in exchange for Ford Madox Brown’s painting “The English Boy” (1860, Manchester Art Gallery, 1932.10).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.186
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ford Madox Hueffer, Ford Madox Brown: A Record of His Life and Works, Longmans, Green and Co. (New York, NY and London, England, 1896), pp. 307, 311, 442 (list)
  • Loan exhibition of works by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites, exh. cat., Manchester City Art Gallery (Manchester, England, 1911), no. 90, p. 22
  • Antique and Modern Appointments at Bodlondeb, Conway, North Wales, auct. cat., Drivers, Jonas and Co. and Sotheby's (London, England, October 20, 1936), no. 57, p. 12, repr. opposite p. 12
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 2, pp. 20-21, repr.
  • David H. Dickason, The Daring Young Men: The Story of the American Pre-Raphaelites, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN, 1953), p. 235
  • [Letter from Miss Frances Stillman], February 1975, Unpublished, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
  • Odette Bornand, ed., The Diary of W. M. Rossetti, 1870-1873, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1977), pp. 147, 153, 176
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 100, repr. as no. 71
  • Dianne Sachko Macleod, Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity, Cambridge University Press (New York, 1996), pp. 488-489
  • Kenneth Bendiner, The Art of Ford Madox Brown, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA, 1998), repr. in b/w, fig. 66
  • Mary Bennett, Ford Madox Brown, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 2010), vol. 1, pp. 269-270 as cat. no. A101, repr.
  • Angela Thirlwell, Into the Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown, Chatto & Windus (London, 2010), repr. in color as fig. 12

Exhibition History

  • 58th Annual Exhibition of the Royal Manchester Institution, 1878, Royal Manchester Institution, Manchester, 01/01/1878 - 12/31/1878
  • British Art Fifty Years Ago, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 01/01/1905 - 12/31/1905
  • Loan Exhibition of Works by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, 09/14/1911 - 11/30/1911
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • Pre-Raphaelite and Early French Symbolist Art in the Fogg Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/16/1973 - 02/25/1973
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004

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