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Beata Beatrix

Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1871–72

Provenance

Ownership history

Commissioned by William Graham, London (1817-1885), 1871 [letter from Graham to the artist, Jan. 1, 1871; published in Garnett 2000]; sold, his estate sale, Christie's, London, Apr. 3, 1886, lot 116 as Beata Beatrice to MacKenzie [probably Kenneth Muir MacKenzie; according to annotated sale catalogue and Agnews Picture Stockbook, 1885–1891, no. 3861, National Gallery Research Centre, London; copies in curatorial object file]; sold to Thomas Agnews and Sons, London, Sep. 1886 [Agnews Picture Stockbook, 1885–1891, no. 4196, National Gallery Research Centre, London; copy in curatorial object file and Agnews invoice, Sep. 24, 1886]; sold to Charles L. Hutchinson (1854-1924), Chicago, Sep. 1886; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1925.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Pictures, Designs, and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1883, cat. 83.
Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, Examples of the English Pre-Raphaelite School of Painters, including Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Madox-Brown and others, together with a Collection of the Works of William Blake, December 8, 1892, cat. 115.
St. Louis, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, see Official Catalogue of Exhibits: Universal Exposition, St. Louis, Department B: Art, Group 13, Loan Collection, 1904, cat. 115.
Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Inaugural Loan Exhibition, May 31 – July 1, 1905, cat. 224.
Toledo Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, January 17 – February 12, 1912, cat. 205 (ill.).
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Athenaeum, An Exhibition of Literature and Poetry in Painting since 1850, January 24 – February 14, 1933, cat. 61 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1 – November 1, 1933, cat. 274.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, A Survey of British Painting, May 10 – June 12, 1938, cat. 66 (ill.).
Art Gallery of Toronto, An Exhibition of Great Paintings in Aid of the Canadian Red Cross, November 15 – December 15, 1940, cat. 81.
Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Pre-Raphaelites: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their Associates, February 16 – March 22, 1964, cat. 70 (ill.), traveled to New York, Gallery of Modern Art, including the Huntington Hartford Collection, April 27 – May 31, 1964.
Eugene, Oregon, University of Oregon, Museum of Art, Dante in Art, February 2 – March 14, 1965, Paintings cat. 7 (ill.).
Denver Art Museum, Great Stories in Art, February 13 – March 27, 1966, p. 1 (ill.).

Literature

Published references

“The Art Sales of 1886,” Art Journal 48 (1886), p. 306.
William Michael Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer, (London, 1889), pp. 78-79.
William Michael Rossetti, ed., Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Family Letters with a Memoir by William Michael Rossetti (London, 1895), vol. 2, pp. 238, 253, 256-57, 263-64, 279.
Henry C. Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life (London, 1899), pp. 128-29, 154, 252, no. 248.
Helen Rossetti Angeli, “The Life and Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti” (London, Art Journal, Easter Annual, 1902), pp. 14, 16 (ill.).
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Illustrations of Selected Works in the Various National Sections of the Department of Art (St. Louis, 1904), p. 13, opp. p. 13 (ill.), p. 15.
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, “The Inaugural Loan Exhibition: Albright Art Gallery,” Academy Notes 1, 1 (June 1905), pp. 16, 34 (ill.).
William A. Knight, Six Lectures on Some Nineteenth Century Artists, English and French (Chicago, 1909), p. 131, pl. 22.
Ernestine Mills, The Life and Letters of Frederic Shields (London, 1912), p. 151.
Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 13, 7, (October 1919), p. 98 (ill.).
R.M.F., “The Charles L. Hutchinson Bequest,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 19, 9, (December 1925), pp. 102, 104 (ill.).
Frank Jewett Mather, Modern Paintings (New York, 1927), pp. 74 (ill.), 75.

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