UK Museums Provenance Research Projects: TATE

Lists of works with incomplete provenance during the period 1933 - 1945

Spoliation Reports Phases 1,2 and 3

Phase 4 - List of works with incomplete provenance during the period 1933 - 1945

ABBOTT, Lemuel Francis (1760-1803)
Portrait of the Engraver Francesco Bartolozzi, No date
Oil paint on canvas
756 x 676 mm
Presented by Mrs M. Bernard 1968
T01067
Provenance:
• …; Mrs M Bernard, by 1968
Questions in the operative period:
No published provenance pre-1968
AGASSE, Jacques Laurent (1767-1849)
Two Hunters with a Groom (circa 1805)
Oil on canvas
638 x 759 mm
Presented by Paul Mellon through the British Sporting Art Trust 1979
T02350
Provenance:
• …; reportedly bought by Oscar Johnson (d.1968), before 1963
• Oscar & Peter Johnson Ltd
• From whom purchased by Paul Mellon 1968
• Presented by Paul Mellon, 1979
Questions in the operative period:
No information on whereabouts prior to acquisition by Oscar Johnson
ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851)
The Belvoir Hunt: Jumping into and out of a Lane (circa 1830-40)
Oil on canvas
451 x 648 mm
Presented by Paul Mellon through the British Sporting Art Trust 1979
T02353
Provenance:
• …; Arthur Ackermann and Son Ltd
• From whom purchased by Paul Mellon 1964
Questions in the operative period:
No information on whereabouts prior to acquisition by Ackermann and Son Ltd

ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851)
The Belvoir Hunt: The Meet (circa 1830-40)
Oil on canvas
451 x 648 mm
Presented by Paul Mellon through the British Sporting Art Trust 1979
T02352
Provenance:
• …; Arthur Ackermann and Son Ltd
• from whom purchased by Paul Mellon 1964
Questions in the operative period:
No information on whereabouts prior to acquisition by Ackermann and Son Ltd
ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851)
The Belvoir Hunt: Full Cry (circa 1830-40)
Oil on canvas
451 x 648 mm
Presented by Paul Mellon through the British Sporting Art Trust 1979
T02354
Provenance:
• …; Arthur Ackermann and Son Ltd
• from whom purchased by Paul Mellon 1964
Questions in the operative period:
No information on whereabouts prior to acquisition by Ackermann and Son Ltd
ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851)
The Belvoir Hunt: The Death (circa 1830-40)
Oil on canvas
451 x 648 mm
Presented by Paul Mellon through the British Sporting Art Trust 1979
T02355
Provenance:
• …; Arthur Ackermann and Son Ltd
• from whom purchased by Paul Mellon 1964
Questions in the operative period:
No information on whereabouts prior to acquisition by Ackermann and Son Ltd
ANSDELL, Richard (1815-1885)
A Ploughing Match, No date
Oil paint on canvas
781 x 1346 mm
Purchased 1935
N04798
Provenance:
• …; acquired 1935
Questions in the operative period:
No early history yet traced
BARENGER, James (1780-1831)
Jonathan Griffin, Huntsman to the Earl of Derby's Staghounds (1813)
Oil on canvas
1016 x 1270 mm
Presented by Paul Mellon through the British Sporting Art Trust 1979
T02356
Provenance:
• …; anon. sale Christie’s 17 March 1967 (167)
• Bought Betts
• Arthur Ackermann and Son Ltd, exhibited 1967
• From whom purchased by Paul Mellon 1967
Questions in the operative period:
No information on whereabouts prior to 1967
BARRET, George (1767-1842)
Landscape with a Bridge, No date
Watercolour and graphite on paper
498 x 670 mm
Purchased 1974
T01860
Provenance
• …; Spink by 1973
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by Spink
BATEMAN, James (1815-1849)
Highland Scene (1844)
Oil on wood
203 x 254 mm
Presented anonymously in memory of Mrs M. Bernard 1981
T03210
Provenance:
• ...; Montague Bernard Esq.
• Presented to Tate by M. Bernard, Esq. in memory of Mrs M. Bernard 1981
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by Montague Bernard Esq.
BEAUMONT, George Howland (1753-1827)
Landscape (c. 1795)
Oil paint on paper
133 x 159 mm
Purchased 1969
T01148
Provenance
• …; R. B. Beckett
Questions in operative period
No source or date of acquisition by Beckett
Additional information
R. B. Beckett (1891-1973) was editor of Constable’s letters.
BEECHEY, Sir William (1753-1839)
Portrait of Sir Francis Ford's Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy (exhibited 1793)
Oil on canvas
1805 x 1500 mm
Purchased with assistance from the National Art Collections Fund 1993
T06734
Provenance:
• Painted for Sir Francis Ford (1758-1801)
• With his daughter, Caroline and her husband John Hyde at Syndale, Kent, by 1838
• …; ? Colville Hyde sale, Christies, London, 2 March 1922
• …; with Scott & Fowles, New York
• …; John M. Schiff (1904-1987), New York
• His sale, Sotheby’s New York 10 January 1991
• Bought by the Dover Street Gallery London
• By whom sold to the Tate in 1993
Questions in the operative period:
Uncertain identification in Colville Hyde sale, Christies 2 March 1922
Uncertain whether Scott & Fowles acquired it at 1922 sale
Uncertain whether Schiff acquired it from Scott & Fowles
Additional information
John M. Schiff’s father Mortimer L. Schiff (1877-1931), successful banker and collector, owned two
other Beecheys which he lent to an exhibition in New York in 1912. This painting was illustrated in an
(undated) advertisement, held in the Witt Library, for Scott & Fowles the art gallery owned by E. J.
Rousuck and active c.1905-43.
after BLAKE, William (1757-1827)
David Delivered out of Many Waters, No date
Graphite and watercolour on paper
Bequeathed by Miss Alice G.E. Carthew 1940
N05197
Provenance
• …; Miss Alice G.E. Carthew by 1940
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by Carthew
Additional information
Miss Alice G. E. Carthew (b.1868), who bequeathed a large number of works, was collecting by 1911.
This work is believed to be a late copy, perhaps by the donor herself.
after BLAKE, William (1757-1827)
The Raising of Lazarus, No date
Watercolour and graphite on paper
Bequeathed by Miss Alice G.E. Carthew 1940
N05199
Provenance
• …; ?Carfax and Co. by 1906
• Miss Carthew, ?after 1914
Questions in the operative period:
Uncertain date of acquisition by Carthew
Additional information
Miss Alice G. E. Carthew (b.1868), who bequeathed a large number of works, was collecting by 1911.
BLAKE, William (1757-1827)
Age Teaching Youth (c.1785-90)
108 x 80 mm
Bequeathed by Miss Alice G.E. Carthew 1940
N05183
Provenance:
• ? Mrs Blake
• ? Frederick Tatham
• ? sold Sotheby's 29 April 1862 (possibly? in 185, 2 items ‘in colours’, 15/- bought Harvey
• with Harvey by 1863
• George A. Smith
• sold Christie's 16 July 1880 (102) 14/-
• bought J. Pearson
• ? U.S. collection, by 1905
• Miss Carthew
Questions in the operative period:
Uncertain date of acquisition by Carthew
Additional information
Miss Alice G. E. Carthew (b.1868), who bequeathed a large number of works in 1940, was collecting
by 1911
BLAKE, William (1757-1827)
First Book of Urizen pl. 21 1796, c.1818
Etching with paint, watercolour and ink on paper
270 x 184 mm
Purchased with funds provided by the Art Fund, Tate Members, Tate Patrons, Tate Fund and individual
donors 2009
T12999
Provenance:
• Inherited by Catherine Blake, the artist’s widow (d.1831)
• By whom given to Frederick Tatham, at an unknown date
• … purchased by a private collector at a second-hand book sale in north London c.1970
Questions in the operative period:
No ownership history between Tatham and c.1970
Additional information
Checked with Art Loss Register
BLAKE, William (1757-1827)
The Book of Thel pl. 6 1796, c.1818
Etching with paint, watercolour and ink on paper
260 x 186 mm
Purchased with funds provided by the Art Fund, Tate Members, Tate Patrons, Tate Fund and individual
donors 2009
T13000
Provenance:
• Inherited by Catherine Blake, the artist’s widow (d.1831)
• By whom given to Frederick Tatham, at an unknown date
• … purchased by a private collector at a second-hand book sale in north London c.1970
Questions in the operative period:
No ownership history between Tatham and c.1970
Additional information
Checked with Art Loss Register
BLAKE, William (1757-1827)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell pl. 16 1796, c.1818
Etching with paint, watercolour and ink on paper
259 x 187 mm
Purchased with funds provided by the Art Fund, Tate Members, Tate Patrons, Tate Fund and individual
donors 2009
T13001
Provenance:
• Inherited by Catherine Blake, the artist’s widow (d.1831)
• By whom given to Frederick Tatham, at an unknown date
• … purchased by a private collector at a second-hand book sale in north London c.1970
Questions in the operative period:
No ownership history between Tatham and c.1970
Additional information
Checked with Art Loss Register
BLAKE, William (1757-1827)
First Book of Urizen pl. 6 1796, c.1818
Etching with paint, watercolour and ink on paper
250 x 187 mm
Purchased with funds provided by the Art Fund, Tate Members, Tate Patrons, Tate Fund and individual
donors 2009
T13002
Provenance:
• Inherited by Catherine Blake, the artist’s widow (d.1831)
• By whom given to Frederick Tatham, at an unknown date
• … purchased by a private collector at a second-hand book sale in north London c.1970
Questions in the operative period:
No ownership history between Tatham and c.1970
Additional information
Checked with Art Loss Register
BLAKE, William (1757-1827)
First Book of Urizen pl. 10 1796, c.1818
Etching with paint, watercolour and ink on paper
266 x 185 mm
Purchased with funds provided by the Art Fund, Tate Members, Tate Patrons, Tate Fund and individual
donors 2009
T13003
Provenance:
• Inherited by Catherine Blake, the artist’s widow (d.1831)
• By whom given to Frederick Tatham, at an unknown date
• … purchased by a private collector at a second-hand book sale in north London c.1970
Questions in the operative period:
No ownership history between Tatham and c.1970
Additional information
Checked with Art Loss Register
BLAKE, William (1757-1827)
First Book of Urizen pl. 11 1796, c.1818
Etching with paint, watercolour and ink on paper
257 x 184 mm
Purchased with funds provided by the Art Fund, Tate Members, Tate Patrons, Tate Fund and individual
donors 2009
T13004
Provenance:
• Inherited by Catherine Blake, the artist’s widow (d.1831)
• By whom given to Frederick Tatham, at an unknown date
• … purchased by a private collector at a second-hand book sale in north London c.1970
Questions in the operative period:
No ownership history between Tatham and c.1970
Additional information
Checked with Art Loss Register
BLAKE, William (1757-1827)
First Book of Urizen pl. 15 1796, c.1818
Etching with paint, watercolour and ink on paper
259 x 182 mm
Purchased with funds provided by the Art Fund, Tate Members, Tate Patrons, Tate Fund and individual
donors 2009
T12997
Provenance:
• Inherited by Catherine Blake, the artist’s widow (d.1831)
• By whom given to Frederick Tatham, at an unknown date
• … purchased by a private collector at a second-hand book sale in north London c.1970
Questions in the operative period:
No ownership history between Tatham and c.1970
Additional information
Checked with Art Loss Register
BLAKE, William (1757-1827)
First Book of Urizen pl. 17 1796, c.1818
Etching with paint, watercolour and ink on paper
265 x 185 mm
Purchased with funds provided by the Art Fund, Tate Members, Tate Patrons, Tate Fund and individual
donors 2009
T12998
Provenance:
• Inherited by Catherine Blake, the artist’s widow (d.1831)
• By whom given to Frederick Tatham, at an unknown date
• … purchased by a private collector at a second-hand book sale in north London c.1970
Questions in the operative period:
No ownership history between Tatham and c.1970
Additional information
Checked with Art Loss Register
BLAKE, William (1757-1827)
The Soul Hovering over the Body Reluctantly Parting with Life (circa 1805)
Pencil on paper
272 x 456 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
N05300
Provenance:
• ? Mrs Blake
• ? Frederick Tatham
• ? Joseph Hogarth, sold Southgate's 7-23 June 1854, 12th evening (in 5082 with 21 other
works) 16/-
• Bought Edsall
• …; Richard Johnson
• Sold Platt's 25 April 1912 (in 702 with 16 other works)
• Purchaser unknown
• …; sold Sotheby's 28-30 May 1934, 1st day (167) £22
• Bought Bain for Sir Hugh Walpole
Questions in the operative period:
Uncertain owner before May 1934 sale
manner of BONINGTON, Richard Parkes (1802-1828)
Landscape in Normandy, No date
Oil paint on canvas
387 x 549 mm
Presented by Frederick John Nettlefold 1947
N05790
Provenance:
• Didier Henry, Paris, 1868
• Victor Rienaecker 1926
• …; Frederick John Nettlefold by 1933
Questions in the operative period:
Uncertain transfer from Rienaecker to Nettlefold
Additional Information
This was published in vol 1 of Nettlefold's catalogue in 1933. Rienaeker was a British collector and
scholar, also a Curator at the Ashmolean.
BONINGTON, Richard Parkes (1802-1828)
Venice: Ducal Palace with a Religious Procession (exhibited 1828)
Oil paint on canvas
1143 x 1626 mm
Presented by Frederick John Nettlefold 1947
N05789
Provenance:
• coll of Lord Northbrook, Stratton Park, before 1893
• Sir Thomas Baring
• …; Frederick John Nettlefold by 1933
Questions in the operative period:
Uncertain transfer from Baring to Nettlefold
BONINGTON, Richard Parkes (1802-1828)
The Pont des Arts, Paris (c.1826)
Oil paint on board
356 x 451 mm
Bequeathed by P. Ralli 1961
N06326
Provenance:
• …; P. Ralli by 1961
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date for Ralli’s acquisition
BRABAZON, Hercules Brabazon (1821-1906)
Akaba, No date
Watercolour and gouache on paper
254 x 330 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Victor A.A.H. Wellesley Bt 1954
N06252
Provenance:
• …; Sir Victor A.A.H. Wellesley Bt by 1954
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date for Wellesley’s acquisition
Additional information
May have been acquired directly from the artist
BREE, Rev. William (1754-1822)
A Much-Repaired Gate (1804)
Watercolour on paper
114 x 187 mm
Presented by Miss Marjorie Ball 1988
T05471
Provenance:
• …; Marjorie Ball by 1988
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date for Ball’s acquisition
Additional information:
Marjorie Ball, of Houndswood House, Harper, formed her collection from a wide variety of sources but
kept little provenance information.
BRETT, John (1831-1902)
Glacier of Rosenlaui (1856)
Oil paint on canvas
445 x 419 mm
Purchased 1946
N05643
Provenance
• Sir Thomas Fairbairn, June 1860
• Christie’s, 7 May 1887 (144), bought in.
• …; Nicolson Gallery, London
• Acquired 1946
Questions in the operative period:
Uncertain whether returned to Fairburn after failed sale in 1887
No source or date for Nicolson Gallery ownership.
Additional information:
Sir Thomas Fairbairn (1823-1891) was a noted industrialist and collector of Pre-Raphaelite painting.
BRITISH SCHOOL 19TH CENTURY, (1800-1899)
Country Girl with Downcast Eyes, No date
Watercolour on paper
292 x 235 mm
Purchased 1955
T00031
Provenance:
• …; acquired 1955
Questions in the operative period:
No early history yet traced for this unattributed work
BRITISH SCHOOL 19TH CENTURY, (1800-1899)
A Black Model (c.1830-40)
Oil paint on canvas
1283 x 1016 mm
Purchased 1942
N05386
Provenance:
• …; acquired 1942
Questions in the operative period:
No early history yet traced for this unattributed work
BROOKE, William Henry (1772-1860)
Lanherne Bay near the Nunnery, Cornwall (1819)
Watercolour on paper
146 x 190 mm
Purchased 1981
T03300
Provenance:
• …; in the London art trade
• Where bought by Stanhope Shelton c.1960
• From whom purchased 1981
Questions in the operative period:
No information on whereabouts before c.1960
Additional information
Stanhope Shelton was an art dealer and scholar with a special interest in watercolours.
BRUNIAS, Agostino (c.1730–1796)
Dancing Scene in the West Indies, c.1764–1796
Oil on canvas
508 x 660 mm
Purchased with assistance from Tate Patrons 2013
T13869
Ownership history
• …; the Parker Gallery, London (label)
• Sir Harold Paton Mitchell, 1st Baronet (1900–1983), Marshall's Island, Bermuda
• By descent
• Sold Christie's South Kensington, London, 25 April 2012, lot 276
• Bought by Rafael Valls Ltd, London
• From whom purchased by Tate 2013
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by Parker Gallery or Mitchell
BURNEY, Edward Francis (1760-1848)
Amateurs of Tye-Wig Music (‘Musicians of the Old School’) (circa 1820)
Oil on canvas
710 x 915 mm
Purchased with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage
Lottery Fund and the National Art Collections Fund 1997
T07278
Provenance:
• …; Pierre Jeannerat (1903-1984)
• Given by him to Margaret Kaye (otherwise Minnie Koussevitsky), London, 1972
• On loan to Tate, 1994
• Purchased 1997
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date for Jeannerat’s acquisition.
CALDERON, Philip Hermogenes (1833-1898)
Broken Vows (1856)
Oil on canvas
914 x 679 mm
Purchased 1947
N05780
Provenance:
• …; Purchased from Mr Arthur Spencer 1947
Questions in the operative period:
No information on whereabouts prior to 1947
CALLCOTT, Sir Augustus Wall (1779-1844)
A Road Leading to a Village (circa 1812)
Oil on wood
197 x 260mm
Presented by Miss Marjorie Ball 1988
T05470
Provenance:
• …; Marjorie Ball by 1988
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date for Ball’s acquisition
Additional information:
Marjorie Ball, of Houndswood House, Harper, formed her collection from a wide variety of sources but
kept little provenance information.
CALVERT, Edward (1799-1883)
Nude Study (circa 1830-50)
Oil on canvas
514 x 378 mm
Presented by the National Art Collections Fund 1942
N05398
Provenance:
• …; acquired 1942
Questions in the operative period:
No early history yet traced
CAMPBELL, James (1828-1893)
The Lollipop (1855)
Oil on canvas
350 x 300 mm
Presented by David Posnett and the Leger Galleries 1996 to celebrate the Tate Gallery Centenary
1997
T07057
Provenance:
• …; sold Goldings, Lincolnshire, 8 Feb. 1995 (337)
• Where bought by David Posnett
Questions in the operative period:
No information on whereabouts prior to 1995 sale
CHALON, Henry Bernard (1770-1849)
A Representation of the Persians in the Costume of their Country, Attending at Carlton Palace
(?1819)
Oil on canvas
1010 x 1441 mm
Presented by Paul Mellon through the British Sporting Art Trust 1979
T02357
Provenance:
• …; Rutland Gallery, London by 1962
• Where acquired by Mr and Mrs John C. West, Unionville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1962
• By whom sold to Essex Gallery of Sport, Far Hills, New Jersey, June 1977
• From whom purchased by Paul Mellon, August 1977
• By whom presented to the Tate Gallery in 1979
Questions in the operative period:
No information on whereabouts prior to 1962
CHINNERY, George (1774-1852)
How Qua, Senior Hong Merchant at Canton, China, No date
Oil paint on canvas
Presented by the Art Fund 1942
N05369
Provenance:
• …; acquired 1942
Questions in the operative period:
No early history yet traced
CHINNERY, George (1774-1852)
Colonel Woodburn of the Bengal Artillery (circa 1803)
Oil on canvas
476 x 375 mm
Bequeathed by Alan Evans 1974
T01910
Provenance:
• ...; Alan Evans by 1974
Questions in the operative period:
No date and source for ownership by Evans
Additional information
Alan Aiden Newton Evans (d. 7th April 1974) bequeathed his collection to the National Gallery;
seventeen paintings were transferred to Tate which, in turn, lent this portrait to the National Army
Museum. Evans’s great-uncle was the collector Frederick Henry Arthur Wallop.
CHURCHYARD, Thomas (1798-1865)
View on the Deben, No date
Oil paint on board
219 x 310 mm
Purchased 1972
T01682
Provenance:
• The artist’s daughter, Elizabeth (1834-1913)
• …; Mrs Evelyn Hopkins
• By whom given to Seckford Library, Woodbridge
• Sold Arnott and Calver, Woodbridge, 2 July 1972 (lot 46)
• Bought Eastbourne Fine Art
• From whom acquired by Tate Gallery 1972
Questions in the operative period:
Unclear whether Hopkins acquired directly from Elizabeth Churchyard
CHURCHYARD, Thomas (1798-1865)
Windmills, No date
Oil paint on wood
164 x 122 mm
Presented anonymously in memory of Sir Terence Rattigan 1983
T03618
Provenance:
• …; Roland, Browse and Delbanco 1959
• Spink & Son Ltd.
• From whom acquired by the donor 1966
Questions in the operative period:
No source for ownership prior to 1959
CHURCHYARD, Thomas (1798-1865)
A House by a River, No date
Oil paint on wood
142 x 200 mm
Presented anonymously in memory of Sir Terence Rattigan 1983
T03619
Provenance:
• The artist’s daughter Harriet Churchyard (1836-1927)
• …; Spink & Son Ltd.
• From whom acquired by the donor 1966
Questions in the operative period:
Uncertain whether Spink & Son Ltd acquired directly from the Churchyard family
CHURCHYARD, Thomas (1798-1865)
The Garden Tent, No date
Oil paint on oak
180 x 164 mm
Presented anonymously in memory of Sir Terence Rattigan 1983
T03620
Provenance:
• The artist’s daughter, Elizabeth Churchyard (1834-1913)
• …; Simon Carter Gallery, Woodbridge
• From whom acquired by the donor 1967
Questions in the operative period:
Uncertain whether Simon Carter Gallery acquired directly from the Churchyard family
CLINT, Alfred (1807-1883)
Hampstead from the South-East (circa 1852-5)
Oil on canvas
610 x 914 mm
Purchased 1935
N04809
Provenance:
• …; Messrs. Dunthorne and Son,
• from whom purchased by the Tate as ‘Old Highgate’ 1935
Questions in the operative period:
No information on whereabouts prior to acquisition from Messrs. Dunthorne and Son
Additional information
May have passed directly from artist to Messrs. Dunthorne and Son
COLMAN, Samuel (1780-1845)
The Temple of Flora, No date
Oil paint on canvas
457 x 610 mm
Purchased 1952
N06038
Provenance:
• …; acquired 1952
Questions in the operative period:
No early history yet traced
COLMAN, Samuel (or Coleman) (1780-1845)
The Death of Amelia (?1804)
Oil on canvas
629 x 756 mm
Purchased 1977
T02109
Provenance:
• …; purchased at Bonham's, 17 Feb 1977
Questions in the operative period:
No information on whereabouts prior to 1977
Additional information
Attribution not certain.
CONSTABLE, George (1792-1878)
Landscape with Cottage and Figures, No date
Oil paint on board
133 x 200 mm
Purchased 1981
T03236
Provenance:
• The artist’s son George Sefton Constable
• By whom given to George Sparks 1878
• …; Bought from Scott Antiquities, Tadworth by Stephen Garratt c.1980
• By whom sold to P. B Sutton
• From whom bought by the Tate Gallery 1981
Questions in the operative period:
No date or details of sale by Sparks
No source or date of acquisition by Scott Antiquities
CONSTABLE, John 1776-1837
Figures Fishing on the Bank of the River Arun Near a Beached Boat, Arundel 1835
Graphite on paper
220 x 282 mm
Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, courtesy of Julie and Lawrence Salander 2012
T13761
Provenance:
• …; presented 2012
Questions in the operative period:
No early history yet traced
CONSTABLE, John 1776-1837
The Ruined Tower of East Bergholt Church 1816-17
Graphite on paper
185 x 222 mm
Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, courtesy of Julie and Lawrence Salander 2012
T13760
Provenance:
• …; private collection London
• Private collection New York
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by private collectors
CONSTABLE, John (1776-1837)
Wooded Landscape with a Church Tower, No date
Chalk on paper
175 x 219 mm
Purchased 1971
T01497
Provenance:
• …; Henry Scipio Reitlinger
• His sale Sotheby’s 26 May 1954 lot 438
• Bought R. B. Beckett
• His widow Norah Beckett
• From whom bought by the Tate Gallery 1971
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by Reitlinger
CONSTABLE, John 1776-1837
Fen Lane, East Bergholt (?1817)
Oil paint on canvas
692 x 925 mm
Purchased with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Art
Fund (with a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation), with additional assistance from Sir Edwin
and Lady Manton and Tate Members in memory of Leslie Parris, Deputy Keeper British Collection and
Senior Research Fellow Collections Division 1974-2000, and from the bequest of Alice Cooper Creed,
2002
T07822
Provenance:
• …; Sir Donald Currie (d.1909), by 1894
• …; private collection
• By descent (submitted for sale at Phillips, 11 December 1990, bought in)
• Purchased 2002
Questions in the operative period:
Uncertain whether private collector bought directly on Currie’s death in 1909
CONSTABLE, John (1776-1837)
The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (‘Whitehall Stairs, June 18th, 1817’) (exhibited 1832)
Oil on canvas
1308 x 2180 mm
Purchased with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Clore Foundation, the
National Art Collections Fund, the Friends of the Tate Gallery and others 1987
T04904
Provenance:
• Artist's administrators, sold Foster 16 May 1838 (74) £63
• Bought Moseley
• …; Charles Birch, Birmingham by 1839,
• Sold Christie's 7 July 1853 (42) £252 bought in,
• Sold Foster 27 Feb. 1857 (LXVI) £609
• Bought Henry Wallis
• Sold by him, Foster 3 Feb. 1858 (104) £582. 15s. bought in,
• Sold Foster 6 Feb. 1861 (86) £464
• Bought Davenport
• …; Kirkman D. Hodgson
• …; Sir Charles Tennant Bart (1823–1906), by 1892
• By descent to his grandson, 2nd Baron Glenconner (Christopher Grey Tennant 1899–1983)
• …; Leggatt
• From whom bought by Harry Ferguson 1955
• By descent to anonymous vendor
• From whom bought through Agnew by the Tate Gallery
Questions in the operative period:
Uncertain whether 2nd Baron Glenconner sold direct to Leggatt.
CONSTABLE, John (1776-1837)
Beaching a Boat, Brighton (1824)
Oil on paper laid on canvas
248 x 294 mm
Presented by Mrs P.M. Rainsford 1986
T04135
Provenance:
• By descent to the artist's daughter Isabel Constable (1822-88),
• By whose executor sold at Christie's 17 June 1892 (254 as' A Coast Scene, with fishing boat': label
with this title and recording Isabel's ownership formerly on stretcher and now separately
preserved) £32.11s.
• Bought Dowdeswell
• …; P. A. Chéramy, Paris by 1902, when repr. in Magazine of Art
• His sale, Georges Petit, Paris 5-7 May 1908 (19 as 'Pêcheurs amenant un bateau de pêche sur la
rive')
• …; 'Mr Meyer'
• From whom bought by Leger, Jan. 1962
• Sold to Broadway Gallery, Worcs., Feb. 1962
• Bought there the same month by Mrs Rainsford
Questions in the operative period:
• No source or date of acquisition by Meyer
CONSTABLE, John (1776-1837)
Study of a Girl in a Cloak and Bonnet (1810)
Oil on board
316 x 175 mm
Purchased 1983
T03607
Provenance:
• Allocated to the artist’s daughter Maria Louisa (‘Minna’) in a division of the family collection 27
December 1847 (inscription)
• Inherited on her death in 1885 by her brother Lionel and sister Isabel
• Inherited on Lionel's death in 1887 by Isabel alone
• She died 1888
• Said to have been included in one of the sales of her collection (Christie's 28 May 1891, 17 June
1892)
• Said to have been bought by Thomas J. Barratt
• …; Kojiro Matsukata, Tokyo
• Sold to another Japanese collector, c.1930
• By descent to collector’s son
• From whom bought by Tokuzo Mizushima (owner of the Fujikawa Galleries), ? 1954
• By whom offered for sale, Sotheby's 2 March 1983 (75, repr. in col.), bought in
• Acquired from Tokuzo Mizushima by Tate Gallery 1983
Questions in the operative period:
• Uncertain dates of acquisition and disposal by Matsukata
Additional information:
Baron Matsukata – whose collection of Impressionist paintings and sculpture is now in the Museum of
Western Art in Tokyo - owned a number of Constable works.
CONSTABLE, John (1776-1837)
Cloud Study with Verses from Bloomfield (1830s)
Pen and ink on paper
337 x 213 mm
Purchased 1974
T01940
Provenance:
• Presumably given by Constable to David Lucas
• Said to have passed to his brother Alfred Lucas
• Said to have been bought from Alfred Lucas by E. E. Leggatt
• …; R. B. Beckett by 1956, when exhibited at Manchester
• His widow Mrs Norah Beckett 1970
• Purchased from her executrix by the Tate Gallery with funds from the Gytha Trust 1974
Questions in the operative period:
• No definitive information on whereabouts between Leggatt and Beckett
CONSTABLE, John (1776-1837)
Study for 'Flatford Mill' (circa 1816)
Drawing on paper
255 x 312 mm
Purchased 1988
T05493
Provenance:
• …; acquired 1988
Questions in the operative period:
• No early history has yet been traced
CONSTABLE, John (1776-1837)
Netley Abbey by Moonlight (circa 1833)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
146 x 200 mm
Purchased 1969
T01147
Provenance:
• Charles Golding Constable
• His posthumous sale, Christie's, in pursuance of a High Court order, 11 July 1887 (62, 'Netley
Abbey by Moon light', watercolour)
• Bought Clifford Constable, £21.10s. 6d.
• …; anon. sale Christie's 23 October 1953 (34)
• Bought Burnley
• R. B. Beckett by 1956, when lent by him to the Manchester exhibition
• Bought from him by the Tate Gallery with funds from the Gytha Trust 1969
Questions in the operative period:
• No source or date of acquisition by vendor in 1953
CONSTABLE, John (1776-1837) LUCAS, David (1802-1881)
Gillingham Mill, Dorsetshire (c.1843, c.1855)
Steel plate
250 x 194 mm
Purchased 1991
T06508
Provenance:
• Constable sale, Foster and Sons, 1838, in one of two lots including, respectively, 22 and 6
original steel plates
• H.G. Bohn bid £55 for these but they were initially bought in
• Bohn may have acquired them later
• …; ‘bookstall owner in Farringdon Road'
• Gift to Michael Cole, engraver Clerkenwell Green, c.1967-8
• From whom purchased by Tate 1991
Questions in the operative period:
• No information on whereabouts prior to c.1967
CONSTABLE, John (1776-1837) LUCAS, David (1802-1881)
Hampstead Heath, Harrow in the Distance (c.1845, c.1855)
Steel plate
178 x 213 mm
Purchased 1991
T06507
Provenance:
• Constable sale, Foster and Sons, 1838, in one of two lots including, respectively, 22 and 6
original steel plates
• H.G. Bohn bid £55 for these but they were initially bought in
• Bohn may have acquired them later
• …; ‘bookstall owner in Farringdon Road'
• Gift to Michael Cole, engraver Clerkenwell Green, c.1967-8
• From whom purchased by Tate 1991
Questions in the operative period:
• No information on whereabouts prior to c.1967
CONSTABLE, John and LUCAS, David (1776-1837, 1802-1881)
Arundel Mill and Castle (circa 1846, circa 1855)
Steel plate
193 x 243 mm
Purchased 1991
T06511
Provenance:
• Constable sale, Foster and Sons, 1838, in one of two lots including, respectively, 22 and 6
original steel plates
• H.G. Bohn bid £55 for these but they were initially bought in
• Bohn may have acquired them later
• …; ‘bookstall owner in Farringdon Road'
• Gift to Michael Cole, engraver Clerkenwell Green, c.1967-8
• From whom purchased by Tate 1991
Questions in the operative period:
• No information on whereabouts prior to c.1967
CONSTABLE, John and LUCAS, David (1776-1837, 1802-1881)
Willy Lott's House (1832, circa 1844, circa 1855)
Steel plate
256 x 187 mm
Purchased 1991
T06506
Provenance:
• Constable sale, Foster and Sons, 1838, in one of two lots including, respectively, 22 and 6
original steel plates
• H.G. Bohn bid £55 for these but they were initially bought in
• Bohn may have acquired them later
• …; ‘bookstall owner in Farringdon Road'
• Gift to Michael Cole, engraver Clerkenwell Green, c.1967-8
• From whom purchased by Tate 1991
Questions in the operative period:
• No information on whereabouts prior to c.1967
CONSTABLE, John and LUCAS, David (1776-1837, 1802-1881)
Porch of the Church at East Bergholt, Suffolk (circa 1843, circa 1855)
Steel plate
246 x 189 mm
Purchased 1991
T06505
Provenance:
• Constable sale, Foster and Sons, 1838, in one of two lots including, respectively, 22 and 6
original steel plates
• H.G. Bohn bid £55 for these but they were initially bought in
• Bohn may have acquired them later
• …; ‘bookstall owner in Farringdon Road'
• Gift to Michael Cole, engraver Clerkenwell Green, c.1967-8
• From whom purchased by Tate 1991
Questions in the operative period:
• No information on whereabouts prior to c.1967
CONSTABLE, John and LUCAS, David (1776-1837, 1802-1881)
Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (‘English Landscape’) / Noon
(1830, circa 1855)
Steel plate
192 x 255 mm
Purchased 1991
T06503
Provenance:
• Constable sale, Foster and Sons, 1838, in one of two lots including, respectively, 22 and 6
original steel plates
• H.G. Bohn bid £55 for these but they were initially bought in
• Bohn may have acquired them later
• …; ‘bookstall owner in Farringdon Road'
• Gift to Michael Cole, engraver Clerkenwell Green, c.1967-8
• From whom purchased by Tate 1991
Questions in the operative period:
• No information on whereabouts prior to c.1967
CONSTABLE, John and LUCAS, David (1776-1837, 1802-1881)
Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (‘English Landscape’) /
Summer Morning (1831, circa 1855)
Steel plate
176 x 253 mm
Purchased 1991
T06504
Provenance:
• Constable sale, Foster and Sons, 1838, in one of two lots including, respectively, 22 and 6
original steel plates
• H.G. Bohn bid £55 for these but they were initially bought in
• Bohn may have acquired them later
• …; ‘bookstall owner in Farringdon Road'
• Gift to Michael Cole, engraver Clerkenwell Green, c.1967-8
• From whom purchased by Tate 1991
Questions in the operative period:
• No information on whereabouts prior to c.1967
CONSTABLE, John and LUCAS, David (1776-1837, 1802-1881)
Mill near Colchester (circa 1845-6, circa 1855)
Steel plate
192 x 243 mm
Purchased 1991
T06510
Provenance:
• Constable sale, Foster and Sons, 1838, in one of two lots including, respectively, 22 and 6
original steel plates
• H.G. Bohn bid £55 for these but they were initially bought in
• Bohn may have acquired them later
• …; ‘bookstall owner in Farringdon Road'
• Gift to Michael Cole, engraver Clerkenwell Green, c.1967-8
• From whom purchased by Tate 1991
Questions in the operative period:
• No information on whereabouts prior to c.1967
CONSTABLE, John and LUCAS, David (1776-1837, 1802-1881)
A Cottage in a Cornfield (circa 1844, circa 1855)
Steel plate
245 x 190 mm
Purchased 1991
T06509
Provenance:
• Constable sale, Foster and Sons, 1838, in one of two lots including, respectively, 22 and 6
original steel plates
• H.G. Bohn bid £55 for these but they were initially bought in
• Bohn may have acquired them later
• …; ‘bookstall owner in Farringdon Road'
• Gift to Michael Cole, engraver Clerkenwell Green, c.1967-8
• From whom purchased by Tate 1991
Questions in the operative period:
• No information on whereabouts prior to c.1967
CONSTABLE, John and LUCAS, David (1776-1837, 1802-1881)
Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery (‘English Landscape’)/ Spring
(1830, circa 1855)
Steel plate
156 x 258 mm
Purchased 1991
T06502
Provenance:
• Constable sale, Foster and Sons, 1838, in one of two lots including, respectively, 22 and 6
original steel plates
• H.G. Bohn bid £55 for these but they were initially bought in
• Bohn may have acquired them later
• …; ‘bookstall owner in Farringdon Road'
• Gift to Michael Cole, engraver Clerkenwell Green, c.1967-8
• From whom purchased by Tate 1991
Questions in the operative period:
• No information on whereabouts prior to c.1967
COOPER, Abraham (1787-1868)
Draught Horses (1828)
Oil on canvas
705 x 908 mm
Presented by Mr and Mrs G.F. Jerdein 1951
N05977
Provenance:
• Mr Crampern (sp?) of Jermyn Street [label]
• …; Mr and Mrs G. F. Jerdein
• By whom presented 1951
Questions in the operative period:
No date and source of acquisition by Jerdein
Additional information
G. F. Jerdein (1875-1963) was Mayor of Westminster (1938-9).
COPLEY, John Singleton (1738-1815)
Study for 'The Death of Major Peirson' (c.1783)
Graphite and chalk on paper
356 x 575 mm
Purchased 1939
N04984
Provenance:
• …; acquired 1939
Questions in the operative period:
No early history yet traced
COTMAN, John Sell (1782-1842)
Seashore with Boats (c.1808)
Oil paint on board
283 x 410 mm
Purchased 1935
N04785
Provenance:
• …; acquired 1935
Questions in the operative period:
No early history yet traced
COTMAN, John Sell (1782-1842)
Norwich Market-Place (c.1809)
Watercolour and graphite on paper
406 x 648 mm
Presented by Francis E. Halsey 1945
N05636
Provenance
• …; Francis E. Halsey by 1945
Questions in the operative period:
No date or source of acquisition by Halsey.
COX, David (1783-1859)
Rhyl Sands (c.1854)
Oil paint on canvas
454 x 630 mm
Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1985
T04130
Provenance
• ? The artist’s son, David Cox jr.
• Sold Christie’s 3 May 1873 (lot 132) £404.10s
• Bought Agnew
• By whom sold to J. S. Morgan, New York, 19 May 1873
• …; Palser Gallery (label) by 1936 (when exhibited at its Ruskin Galleries, Birmingham)
• From whom bought by the Hon. John Trevor Roberts (later Lord Clwyd), probably 1936
• From whom acquired for Tate Gallery
Questions in the operative period:
No date or source of acquisition by Palser Gallery.
COX, David (1783-1859)
Clouds 1857
Oil paint on paper
165 x 238 mm
Presented by Professor Luke Herrmann (from the Bruce Ingram Collection) through the Art Fund 2002
T07880
Provenance:
• …; Sir Bruce Ingram
• By whom bequeathed to Professor Luke Herrmann 1963.
Questions in the operative period:
No date or source of acquisition by Ingram.
Additional information
Sir Bruce Ingram was the proprietor of The Illustrated London News.
COX, David (1783-1859)
A Welsh Funeral, Betwys-y-Coed (circa 1847-50)
Oil on paper
540 x 749 mm
Purchased 1936
N04844
Provenance:
• ? ‘Thomas & Bett'ge’ sale, Birmingham, 8 April 1892 (lot 122), bought in £840
• ? John Betts
• His sale, Christie’s 16 April 1894
• Where bought by Clayton
• Christie’s 1930 £25.4s
• …; bought from Agnews 1936 by National Gallery and transferred to Tate
Questions in the operative period:
• No clear information on whereabouts between 1930 and 1936
COX, David (1783-1859)
Waiting for the Ferry Boat (circa 1835)
Watercolour on paper
197 x 292 mm
Bequeathed by Travers Buxton 1945
N05617
Provenance:
• Stephen G. Holland
• His sale, Christie’s 26 June 1908 (lot 161)
• bought Agnew, £168
• …; Travers Buxton
• By whom bequeathed
Questions in the operative period:
Uncertain whether Buxton acquired it directly from Agnew.
COZENS, John Robert (1752-1797)
Lake Nemi (c.1783-8)
Watercolour on paper
445 x 632 mm
Presented by Miss Evelyn Brooke 1947
N05807
Provenance
• …; Miss Evelyn Brooke, by 1947
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by Brooke.
CRISTALL, Joshua (1767 or 8 -1847)
Arcadian Landscape (1830)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
254 x 219 mm
Purchased 1974
T01852
Provenance:
• …; Francis Llewellyn Jenks
• Sold Christie's 30 January 1974
• Where bought by Colnaghi for Tate 1974
Questions in the operative period:
• No date or source of acquisition by Jenks.
CRISTALL, Joshua (1767 or 8 -1847)
Beach Scene, Hastings (circa 1807-8)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
184 x 302 mm
Purchased 1974
T01851
Provenance:
• …; Francis Llewellyn Jenks
• Sold Christie's 30 January 1974
• Where bought by Colnaghi for Tate 1974
Questions in the operative period:
No date or source of acquisition by Jenks
CROTCH, William 1775-1847
Hampstead, from behind Wetherall Place 1807
Graphite, watercolour and gum arabic on paper
114 x 178 mm
Presented by Anne Lyles in memory of Henry Wemyss (1956-2010) 2010
T13239
Provenance:
• …; Iolo Williams
• Acquired from his descendents by Andrew Clayton-Payne
• Purchased by Anne Lyles, March 1989
Questions in the operative period:
No date or source of acquisition by Williams.
Additional Information
Williams presented a work by Haydon to Tate in 1942.
DADD, Richard (1817-1886)
Portrait of a Young Man (1853)
Oil on canvas
606 x 500 mm
Bequeathed by Ian L. Phillips 1984 and accessioned 1992
T06665
Provenance:
• …; Ian L. Phillips by 1984
• By whom bequeathed to Tate Gallery
Questions in the operative period:
No date or source of acquisition by Phillips
DANBY, Francis (1793-1861)
The Deluge (?circa 1840)
Oil on canvas
707 x 1099 mm
Purchased 1953
N06134
Provenance:
• ...; C. W. L. Jensen of Bournemouth
• By descent to his daughter, Mrs M. C. Wareham
• From whom bought by Tate, 1953
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by Jensen
Additional information
Possible that Jensen acquired it directly from artist.
DANBY, Francis (1793-1861)
Liensfiord, Norway: Calm (circa 1835)
Oil on poplar
411 x 542 mm
Purchased 1985
T04104
Provenance:
• …; private collection, Switzerland, 1970s
• Sold Sotheby’s 21 November 1984 (71 as 'a lake in Norway, possibly Fensfjord, near Bergen',
repr. in colour before cleaning)
• Bought Anthony Dallas and Sons Ltd.,
• From whom purchased by Tate 1985
Questions in the operative period:
No source or specific date for acquisition by private collector.
DANBY, Francis (1793-1861)
Children by a Brook (circa 1822)
Oil on canvas
345 x 460mm
Purchased 1983
T03667
Provenance:
• …; anon sale, Sotheby's 7 July 1982, lot 47
• Where bought by Spink and Son Ltd
• From whom acquired by Tate Gallery 1983
Questions in the operative period:
• No information of source or date of acquisition by anonymous vendor in 1982
DANIELL, Thomas (1749-1840)
Sher Shah's Mausoleum, Sasaram (1810)
Oil paint on canvas
972 x 1359 mm
Purchased 1971
T01403
Provenance
• Acquired from the artist by Charles Hampden Turner (1771–1856)
• Sold by his great-grandson, January 1928
• ...; Dr Maurice Shellim (1915-2009)
• Bought by M. G. Archer for Tate 1971
Questions in the operative period:
Uncertain date and source of acquisition by Shellim
Additional information
Shellim published The Daniells in India and the waterfall at Papanasam Calcutta 1971, and Oil
paintings of India and the East: by Thomas Daniell R.A. 1749-1840 and William Daniell R.A. 1769-
1837 London 1979
DANIELL, Thomas (1749-1840)
Idgah at Amroha (1810)
Oil paint on canvas
981 x 1359 mm
Purchased 1971
T01404
Provenance
• Acquired from the artist by Charles Hampden Turner (1771–1856)
• Sold by his great-grandson, January 1928
• ...; Dr Maurice Shellim (1915-2009)
• Bought by M. G. Archer for Tate 1971
Questions in the operative period:
Uncertain date and source of acquisition by Shellim
Additional information
Shellim published The Daniells in India and the waterfall at Papanasam Calcutta 1971, and Oil
paintings of India and the East: by Thomas Daniell R.A. 1749-1840 and William Daniell R.A. 1769-
1837 London 1979
attributed to DAVIS, John Scarlett (1804-1845)
Man in a Top Hat (c.1838)
Oil paint on canvas
635 x 527 mm
Presented by Percy Moore Turner 1945
N05634
Provenance:
• …; Percy Moore Turner by 1945
Questions in the operative period:
No date and source of acquisition by Turner.
DAVIS, John Scarlett (1804-1845)
Interior of Amiens Cathedral (?exhibited 1841)
Oil on canvas
737 x 1667 mm
Presented by Percy Moore Turner 1935
N04794
Provenance:
• …; ? Hinxman
• ? by whom sold Christies 15 April 1846 (lot 60) £24. 3. 0
• …; Percy Moore Turner
Questions in the operative period:
No date and source of acquisition by Turner
DAWE, George (1781-1829)
Imogen Found in the Cave of Belarius (exhibited 1809)
Oil on canvas
1003 x 1270 mm
Purchased 1965
T00718
Provenance:
• ? bought Thomas Hope [Arnold's Library of the Fine Arts vol. 2 1831 pp.9-17]
• …; ‘a dealer’
• Purchased by P. M. Hill
• From whom acquired by Tate Gallery 1965
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by the dealer from whom acquired by Hill.
DAWE, George (1781-1829)
Naomi and her Daughters (exhibited 1804)
Oil on canvas
956 x 759 mm
Purchased 1990
T05746
Provenance:
• …; acquired 1990
Questions in the operative period:
• No early history has yet been found
DELAMOTTE, William Alfred (1775-1863)
Waterperry, Oxfordshire (1803)
Oil on board
324 x 489 mm
Purchased 1968
T01050
Provenance:
• …; W. E. Coe and Sons.
• Sold to P. D. Jolly, 1967
• Sold Sotheby's, 21 December 1967 (193)
• Bought Agnews
• Purchased from Thomas Agnew and Sons Ltd (Florence Fox Bequest) 1968
Questions in the operative period:
• No source or date of acquisition by Coe and Sons
DE WINT, Peter 1784-1849
Near Mill Hill c.1820-25
Watercolour and graphite on paper
220 x 340 mm
Presented by Professor Luke Herrmann (from the Bruce Ingram Collection) through the Art Fund 2002
T07881
Provenance:
• …; Sir Bruce Ingram
• By whom bequeathed to Professor Luke Herrmann 1963.
Questions in the operative period:
No date or source of acquisition by Ingram.
Additional information
Sir Bruce Ingram was the proprietor of The Illustrated London News.
DE WINT, Peter (1784-1849)
Harvesting, No date
Oil paint on canvas
692 x 1168 mm
Purchased 1937
N04879
Provenance:
• …; acquired 1937
Questions in the operative period:
• No early history has yet been found
DE WINT, Peter (1784-1849)
Children at Lunch by a Corn Stook (circa 1810)
Oil on board laid on wood
130 x 349 mm
Purchased 1996
T07099
Provenance:
• …; acquired 1996
Questions in the operative period:
• No early history has yet been found.
DE WINT, Peter (1784-1849)
River Scene at Sunset (?circa 1810)
Oil on board
307 x 460 mm
Presented by Agnew's to celebrate the Tate Gallery Centenary 1997
T07242
Provenance:
• …; Agnew
• by whom presented to Tate Gallery
Questions in the operative period:
• No source or date of acquisition
DIXON, William (?1784 or 5-c.1834)
Cottages near a Track, No date
Oil paint on paper on paper and canvas
162 x 202 mm
Purchased 1984
T03855
Provenance:
• The artist’s nephew, William Dixon
• From whom bought by John Linnell, 1834 or 1835
• His executors, sold Harrie Stacey & Son, Redstone Wood, Reigate, 18-19 Dec. 1917 (? Lot 555 or
556, ‘a quantity of various sketches’)
• …; anon sale, Sotheby’s 28 July 1954 (in lot 91 ‘large parcel’ as Linnell)
• Bought Pierre Jeannerat (1903-84)
• …; unidentified sale, Sotheby’s early 1980s
• Bought Thomas Hobart
• From whom acquired by Tate Gallery
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by anonymous vendor in 1954
DIXON, William (?1784 or 5-c.1834)
Hops, No date
Oil paint on paper mounted onto board
116 x 141 mm
Purchased 1984
T03856
Provenance:
• The artist’s nephew, William Dixon
• From whom bought by John Linnell, 1834 or 1835
• His executors, sold Harrie Stacey & Son, Redstone Wood, Reigate, 18-19 Dec. 1917 (? Lot 555 or
556, ‘a quantity of various sketches’)
• …; ? anon sale, Sotheby’s 28 July 1954 (in lot 91 ‘large parcel’ as Linnell)
• …; unidentified sale, Sotheby’s early 1980s
• Bought Andrew Wyld
• From whom acquired by Spink and Son
• Bought Thomas Hobart
• From whom acquired by Tate Gallery
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by anonymous vendor in 1954
DOBSON, William Charles Thomas (1817-1898)
The Child Jesus Going Down with His Parents to Nazareth (1856)
Oil on canvas
1090 x 900 mm
Purchased 1982
T03448
Provenance:
• Perhaps bought from the artist by Baroness Burdett Coutts [d.1906]
• The Rt Hon., W Burdett Coutts MP
• Sold Christies’s 4/5 May 1922 (177) 8 gns
• Bought Sampson
• New Gallery, Brown’s Buildings, Liverpool c.1924
• …; ? Hinson Fine Paintings, Sheffield, c.1975
• Anon sale, Sotheby’s, Belgravia 25 October 1977 (137, repr. in col.)
• Bought ? Colnaghi
• Fine Art Society by 1979
• Anon. sale Sotheby’s 10 November 1981 (8, repr. in col.) bought in
• Fine Art Society
• From whom bought by Tate
Questions in the operative period:
• Uncertain whereabouts between c.1924 and c.1975.
attributed to DOUGHTY, William (1757-1782)
Caricature Group (c.1780)
Oil paint on canvas
775 x 1041 mm
Purchased 1939
N05598
Provenance:
• …; acquired 1939
•
Questions in operative period
No early history yet found
DOWNARD, Ebenezer Newman active (1849-1889)
A Mountain Path at Capel Curig, Wales (1860)
Oil paint on canvas
352 x 502 mm
Purchased 1969
T01139
Provenance:
• …; sold Sotheby’s, 5 June 1968 (117)
• Bought M. Newman Ltd
• Sold Christie’s, 11 June 1969 (36)
• Bought Montague Bernard for Tate Gallery
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by vendor in 1968
DOWNMAN, John (1750-1824)
Miss Jackson (1778)
Oil on copper
229 x 190 mm
Bequeathed by Alan Evans 1974
T01885
Provenance:
• ...; Alan Evans by 1974
Questions in the operative period:
No date and source for ownership by Evans
Additional information
Alan Evans (d. 7th April 1974) bequeathed his collection to the National Gallery; seventeen paintings
were transferred to Tate. His great-uncle was the collector Frederick Henry Arthur Wallop.
EGLEY, William Maw (1826-1916)
Omnibus Life in London (1859)
Oil on canvas
448 x 419 mm
Bequeathed by Miss J.L.R. Blaker 1947
N05779
Provenance:
• …; Jenny Blaker, Isleworth
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by Blaker
Additional information
Jenny Blaker presented Modigliani’s The Little Peasant to Tate in 1941 in memory of her brother Hugh
Blaker, curator at Bristol Art Gallery
ETTY, William (1787-1849)
The Parting of Hero and Leander (exhibited 1827)
Oil paint and metal leaf on canvas
864 x 864 x 26 mm
Purchased 1945
N05614
Provenance:
• …; acquired 1945
Questions in the operative period:
No early history yet found
ETTY, William (1787-1849)
The Coral Finder: Venus and her Youthful Satellites, replica (c.1820-48)
Oil paint on canvas
744 x 986 mm
Bequeathed by Mrs M. Orr-Ewing 1964
N06354
Provenance:
• …; Muriel Orr-Ewing (1900-94), by 1964
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by Orr-Ewing
ETTY, William (1787-1849)
Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret (exhibited 1833)
Oil paint on canvas
908 x 660 mm
Purchased 1958
T00199
Provenance:
• …; acquired 1958
Questions in the operative period:
No early history yet found
ETTY, William (1787-1849)
Miss Mary Arabella Jay (exhibited 1819)
Oil on canvas
762 x 632 mm
Bequeathed by Mrs Rose Mary Chamberlen 1956
N06268
Provenance:
• …; Mrs Rose Mary Chamberlen, by 1956
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by Chamberlen
ETTY, William (1787-1849)
Standing Female Nude (circa 1835-40)
Oil on canvas
1016 x 648 mm
Presented by the National Art Collections Fund 1941
N05305
Provenance:
• L. Lesser
• Sold anonymously, Christie's 3 January1880 (129) 'A Female Figure' bought in 3gns
• …; private collection
• From whom acquired by J. Leger and Son
• Bought National Art Collections Fund
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date of acquisition by private collector
EVANS, Sebastian (1830-1909)
Allegorical Subject: The Unfaithful Poet (1855)
Pen and ink and pencil on paper
252 x 175 mm
Presented by Miss Marjorie Ball 1988
T05475
Provenance:
• …; Abbott and Holder by c.1965
• When bought by Miss Marjorie Ball
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date for acquisition by Abbott and Holder
Additional information:
Marjorie Ball, of Houndswood House, Harper, formed her collection from a wide variety of sources but
kept little provenance information.
FARINGTON, Joseph (1747-1821)
The Oak Tree (c.1785-90)
Oil paint on canvas
764 x 737 mm
Purchased 1965
T00786
Provenance
• …; Miss E. N. Avent
• Sabin Galleries Ltd
• From whom purchased by Tate Gallery
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date for acquisition by Avent
FERNELEY, John, I (1782-1860)
The Bay Horse (1826)
Oil on canvas
838 x 1048 mm
Presented by Major Guy Paget 1943
N05429
Provenance:
• …; Major Guy Paget by 1943
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date for acquisition by Paget
Additional information:
Guy Paget published The Melton Mowbray of John Ferneley, Leicester 1931
FERNELEY, John, I (1782-1860)
Sir Robert Leighton after Coursing, with a Groom and a Couple of Greyhounds (1816)
Oil on canvas
1051 x 1397 mm
Bequeathed by Mrs F. Ambrose Clark through the British Sporting Art Trust 1982
T03424
Provenance:
• Commissioned by Sir Robert Leighton
• …; [published in Guy Paget, The Melton Mowbray of John Ferneley, Leicester 1931, p.128, no.59]
• Lt Col Sir Jonathan North (d. 1939)
• …; E. J. Rousuck,
• from whom purchased by F. Ambrose Clark, by 1958
• his widow Mrs F. Ambrose Clark
Questions in the operative period:
• No source or date of acquisition by North or by Rousuck
FERNELEY, John, I (1782-1860)
Mr Powell and his Son, with Norton, a Grey Hunter (1816)
Oil on canvas
860 x 1076 mm
Bequeathed by Mrs F. Ambrose Clark through the British Sporting Art Trust 1982
T03425
Provenance:
• Commissioned by Mr Powell
• …; [ published in Guy Paget, The Melton Mowbray of John Ferneley, Leicester 1931, p.134,
no.224]
• Lt Col Sir Jonathan North (d. 1939)
• E. J. Rousuck,
• from whom purchased by F. Ambrose Clark by 1958
• his widow Mrs F. Ambrose Clark
Questions in the operative period:
• No source or date of acquisition by North or by Rousuck
FERNELEY, John, II (circa 1815-1862)
Hunt Scurry (1832)
Oil on canvas
450 x 904 mm
Bequeathed by Mrs F. Ambrose Clark through the British Sporting Art Trust 1982
T03427
Provenance:
• …; Lord Kinnard
• From whom purchased by F. Ambrose Clark by 1958
• His widow Mrs F. Ambrose Clark
•
Questions in the operative period:
• No source or date of acquisition by Kinnard
FIELDING, Anthony Vandyke Copley (1787-1855)
Loch Earn with Ben Vorlich, No date
Watercolour on paper
96 x 200 mm
Presented by Miss Marjorie Ball 1988
T05473
Provenance:
• …; Marjorie Ball by 1988
Questions in the operative period:
No source or date for Ball’s acquisition
Additional information:
Marjorie Ball, of Houndswood House, Harper, formed her collection from a wide variety of sources but
kept little provenance information.
FLAXMAN, John (1755-1826)
Classical Figure Studies (1792)
Drawing on paper
68 x 242 mm
Presented by Miss Marjorie Ball 1988
T05476
Provenance:
• …; Marjorie Ball by 1988
Questions in the operative peri