Lot 27: MARIANNE STOKES | The Queen and the Page

oil on canvas

101 by 96.5cm., 40 by 38in.

oil on canvas

Original canvas. There are areas of craquelure particularly in the upper quadrant and small areas of localised craquelure elsewhere. There are three faint horizontal stretcher bar marks. The surface is clean and the painting presentable and ready to hang. The varnish appears uneven under ultraviolet light. There is a vertical line of retouching to the girl's cloak, localised minor retouching to her dress and within the background; a small vertical line of retouching in the lower left corner. Held in a gilt plaster frame.
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St Ives Show Day, spring 1896;
London, New Gallery, 9th Summer Exhibition, 1896, no.9;
London, Guildhall Art Gallery, 1900, no.93;
Royal Academy, Winter 1909, not numbered;
Wolverhampton City Art Gallery, Atkinson Art Gallery in Southport and Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, Utmost Fidelity - The Painting Lives of Marianne and Adrian Stokes, 2009, not numbered

Engraved by Franz Hanfstaengl, 1896;
Sheffield Independent, 25 April 1896, p.8;
Harriet Ford, 'The work of Mrs Adrian Stokes', The Studio, April 1900,  p.153;
Wilfrid Meynell, 'Mr & Mrs Adrian Stokes', The Art Journal, July 1900, illustrated p.197;
Walter Shaw Sparrow, Women Painters of the World, 1905;
Magdalen Evans, Utmost Fidelity - The Painting Lives of Marianne and Adrian Stokes, 2009, pp.53, 61-64, 66, 85, 86, 105, illustrated p.63

George McCulloch of 184 Queen's Gate, London and thence to his wife Mrs Coutts Michie by whom sold Christie's, 30 May 1913, lot 311 to 'Wallis';
Charles Ketser in 1970;
Private collection