Lot 29: ABRAHAM SOLOMON 1824-1862 DOUBTFUL FORTUNE

oil on panel, arched top

PROVENANCE

Bought from the artist by Charles Prater, his sale Christie's, 4 March 1882, lot 21;
S. D. Schloss, his sale Christie's, 11-13 February 1980, lot 189;
Christie's, 20-22 January 1912, lot 193;
Mr Ismall;
Sotheby's Belgravia, 1 April 1980, lot 189;
Christopher Wood;
Edmund J. and Suzanne McCormick
EXHIBITED

Royal Academy, 1856, no. 533;
London, Christopher Wood Gallery, 1980, no. 15;
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 1984, no. 35;
London, Geffry Museum and Birmingham, City Art Gallery, Solomon: A Family of Painters, 1985-1986, no. 16
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Athenaeum, 17 May 1856, p. 172;
Susan Casteras, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, November 1981, p. 141;
Solomon: A Family of Painters, exhibition catalogue for the Geffry Museum and Birmingham City Art Gallery 1985-1986, p. 54, repr. pl. 16

40.5 by 31 cm., 16 by 12 in.