Circe and the Friends of Ulysses
Auction Closed
July 3, 03:27 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Briton Rivière
London 1840–1920
Circe and the Friends of Ulysses
signed and dated lower right: Briton Riviere 1871
oil on canvas
unframed: 71 x 132 cm.; 28 x 52 in.
framed: 80.4 x 141.5 cm.; 31⅝ x 55¾ in.
John Kynaston Cross (1832–1887), Bolton;
Thence by inheritance to his wife, Emily Kynaston Cross (née Carlton) (1838–1911), Eastbourne;
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 1 May 1897, lot 118 (probably unsold);
Emily Kynaston Cross (née Carlton) (1838–1911), Eastbourne, until 1911;
By posthumous sale, London, Tooth & Tooth, 22 November 1911, lot 149;
With William Walker Sampson, London;
Anonymous sale ('From a local Deceased Estate'), Washington, Toovey’s, 5 September 2018, lot 100.
Morning Post, 29 April 1871, p. 6;
Cheltenham Examiner, 3 May 1871, p. 8;
Gloucestershire Chronicle, 6 May 1871, p. 4;
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 6 May 1871, p. 5;
Oxford Journal, 20 May 1871, p. 5;
Illustrated London News, 20 May 1871, p. 14;
The Era, 28 May 1871, p. 13;
Building News, 2 June 1871, p. 8;
Sun and Central Press, 9 June 1874, p. 3;
The Vassar Miscellany, October 1875, pp. 629–630;
Bradford Observer, 27 June 1882, p. 8;
Demorest’s Family Magazine, May 1891, Vol.XXVII, p. 438, reproduced p. 389;
H. How, ‘Illustrated Interviews – Mr. Briton Riviere, R.A.’, in The Strand Magazine, 1896, p. 8;
W. Armstrong, 'Briton Riviere - His Life and Work', in The Art Annual, 1891, pp. 14–15, reproduced on the frontispiece.
London, Royal Academy, 1871, no. 1156;
Philadelphia, International Exhibition, 1876, no. 151 (lent by John Kynaston Cross);
Manchester, Art Treasures Exhibition, 1879, no. 390 (lent by John Kynaston Cross);
Leeds (Technical School), Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition, 1882, no. 22;
Bradford, Fine Art Exhibition, 1882 (lent by John K. Cross, Esq. M.P.);
Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887, no. 365 (lent by John Kynaston Cross).