Water Willow (Rossetti)
Water Willow | |
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Artist | Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Year | 1871 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 33 cm × 26.7 cm (13 in × 10.5 in) |
Location | Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware |
Water Willow is an 1871 oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It depicts Jane Morris in the river landscape near Kelmscott Manor, with the manor in the left background and Kelmscott Church below the hill to the right.[1]
Origins
In May 1871,
In 1877, facing financial difficulties, Rossetti sold the painting to "a new buyer", William Alfred Turner (1839–1886), a Manchester cotton spinner, who also purchased
Provenance and exhibitions
After Turner's death, the painting was sold at auction by Christie's on 28 April 1888 and was bought in by his executors. Water Willow was the first Pre-Raphaelite painting acquired by the American collector Samuel Bancroft, who purchased it in 1890. Bancroft later sent the painting back to England to be repaired by Charles Fairfax Murray. Murray asked and received Bancroft's permission to make a copy that he gave to Jane Morris, because "she was to have had the picture, it being a great favourite of hers."[5] The original was bequeathed to the Delaware Art Museum by Bancroft's descendants in 1935.[1]
The painting was exhibited in Manchester in 1882 and again in 1887, London in 1883, and Philadelphia in 1892. It was also exhibited in Wilmington, Delaware in 1917 and 1934, New Haven, Connecticut in 1976, and Liverpool and Amsterdam in 2003.[1]
See also
Notes
References
- Todd, Pamela (2001). Pre-Raphaelites at Home. New York: Watson-Guptill. ISBN 0-8230-4285-5.
- Treuherz, Julian; ISBN 0-500-09316-4.
- Wildman, Stephen; Laurel Bradley; Deborah Cherry; John Christian; David B. Elliott; Betty Elzea; Margaretta Fredrick; Caroline Hannah; Jan Marsh; Gayle Seymour (2004). Waking Dreams, the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum. Art Services International. p. 395.