Arthur Hughes

Purchased by George Trist from the Royal Academy exhibition in 1873, for 250 guineas;

His sale, London, Christie's, 1 May 1886, lot 141, for 54 guineas, to Nathan;

With Fine Art Society, London, by 1909;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 18 July 1919, lot 82, to Spencer;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 17 December 1937, lot 111;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 2 June 1950, lot 40, for 30 guineas, to Agnew's;

St. Austel Hotel, Cornwall, by 1962;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 July 1965, lot 114, to Jarrett;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 13 July 1966, lot 115, to Treharne;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 18 June 1969, lot 79;

Where purchased by the Fine Art Society, London;

From whom acquired by a private collector, by 1973;

With Julian Hartnoll, London;

From whom purchased by the Fine Art Society, London, by 15 June 1979;

From whom acquired by a private collector;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 16 October 1981, lot 34;

Where purchased by the present owners.

Athenaeum, 18 January 1873, p. 89;

Athenaeum, 3 May 1873, p. 569;

Athenaeum, 31 May 1873, p. 700;

Tablet, 14 June 1873, p. 7;

Art Journal, 1873, p. 237;

The Times, 26 June 1873, p. 5;

C.E. Clement and L. Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works, Cambridge, Mass. 1884, vol. I, p. 371;

R. Gibson, 'Arthur Hughes: Arthurian and Related Subjects of the 1860s', in Burlington Magazine, July 1970, p. 452;

R.D. Altick, Paintings from Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760–1900, Columbus 1985, p. 451;

D.N. Mancoff, The Arthurian Revival in Victorian Art, New York and London 1990, p. 177, reproduced fig. 55;

L. Roberts, Arthur Hughes - His Life and Works, Woodbridge 1997, pp. 28, 181, no. 121, reproduced in colour p. 96, fig. 69;

J. Cheshire et al. (eds), Tennyson Transformed - Alfred Lord Tennyson and Visual Culture, London 2009, p. 55.

London, Royal Academy, 1873, no. 949;

London, Fine Art Society, 1909, no. 63A;

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, The Sacred and Profane in Symbolist Art, 1–26 November 1969;

London, Fine Art Society, Aspects of Victorian Art, 30 March – 23 April 1971, no. 75.