A Lamplight Study: Herr Joachim by George Frederick Watts
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A Lamplight Study: Herr Joachim

George Frederick Watts · 1868

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catalogue of Paintings, by G.F. Watts, R.A., of London, November 1884 – April 1885, cat. 88.
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Loan Collection of Paintings by George Frederick Watts, R.A. of London, May – October 1885, cat. 88.
  • Chicago, World’s Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, see World’s Columbian Exposition Official Catalogue, Part X, Department K: Fine Arts, Group 146, Loan Collection, 1893, cat. 2987.
  • St. Louis, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, see Official Catalogue of Exhibits: Universal Exposition, St. Louis, Department B: Art, Group 13, Loan Collection, 1904, cat. 109.
  • Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, A Survey of British Painting, May 10 – June 12, 1938, cat. 70.

Literature

Published references

  • “The Art Sales of 1887,” Art Journal 49 (1887), p. 338.
  • Hugh Macmillan, The Life-Work of George Frederick Watts, R.A. (London, 1903), pp. 34, 86.
  • Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Illustrations of Selected Works in the Various National Sections of the Department of Art (St. Louis, 1904), pp. 76 (ill.), 77.
  • Mrs. Russell Barrington, G.F. Watts: Reminiscences (New York, 1905), pp. 33, 36.
  • Marion H. Spielmann, G.F. Watts, R.A., O.M., as a Great Painter of Portraits: A Lecture (with Additions and Emendations) Delivered in the Memorial Hall, Manchester on June 7th, 1905 (London, 1905), p. 39.
  • William A. Knight, Six Lectures on Some Nineteenth Century Artists, English and French (Chicago, 1909), p. 142, pl. 32.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1925, p. 40 (ill.).
  • R.M.F., “The Charles L. Hutchinson Bequest,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 19, 9, (December 1925), p. 103.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 480.
  • Veronica Franklin Gould, G.F. Watts: The Last Great Victorian (New Haven, 2004), p. 210.
  • Mark Bills and Barbara Bryant, G.F. Watts Victorian Visionary: Highlights from the Watts Gallery Collection, exh. cat. (Yale University Press/Watts Gallery, 2008), p. 158.

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