'Tragic Poetess'

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Painting details

Title: 'Tragic Poetess'
Date: c.1890
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 160 x 86 cm
Location: Private Collection
Picture credit: Courtesy of Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (illustrated from 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, London

Provenance

Agnew (art dealer); collection of W. J. (later Lord) Pirrie; sold through Sotheby's (auctioneers) on 17 June 1970 (lot 128); purchased by Hartnoll and Eyre (art dealers); private collection

Bibliography

• Jones, Stephen, et al., 'Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996, p.234
• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.124-125, 135, 170
• 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, London, 1900, p.49

Exhibition history

• 1890, Royal Academy, catalogue number 310
• 1890, Manchester
• 04 January 1897 to 13 March 1897, 'Exhibition of Works be the Late Lord Leighton of Stretton President of the Royal Academy: Winter Exhibition', The Royal Academy of Arts, London, catalogue number 5

Reproductions

Photograph by Frederick Hollyer (photographer, 1837-1933), for Lord Leighton, 1890