'The Painter's Honeymoon'

Painting details

Title: 'The Painter's Honeymoon'
Date: c.1864
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: unknown x unknown cm
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Picture credit: Courtesy of Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (Staley, Edgcumbe, 'Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A.', The Walter Scott Publishing Company, London, 1906, opposite p.48)

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Moreby in 1864; collection of John Smith; sold by Smith through Christie's (auctioneers) on 04 May 1870 (lot 70); collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund)

Bibliography

• Jones, Stephen, et al., 'Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996, p.135-136, illustrated on p.135, catalogue number 30
• Newall, Christopher, 'The Art of Lord Leighton', Phaidon Press Ltd., London, 1990, p.48, 51, illustrated on 51
• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.155
• Rhys, Ernest, 'Frederic Lord Leighton, Late President of the Royal Academy of Arts: An Illustrated Record of his Life and Work', George Bell and Sons,

Exhibition history

• 1866, Royal Academy, catalogue number 4