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5: HOME AND FAMILY
1 1 The London Encyclopaedia 2008 p p 616 2 Millais 1899 I p 363 3 Ibid 4 Life and Letters I p 305 5 5 Letter to Thomas Oldham Barlow 6 September 1878 G R R E Millais Collection quoted in Rosenfeld and Smith 2007 p p 200 200 no 115 6 Letter to to Holman Hunt Hunt 1877 Huntington Library quoted in in in J Musson ‘Has a a a a a a a Paint Pot Done All This? The Studio House of o Sir John Everett Millais’ p 95 in in Mancoff 7 Life and Letters II p 159 6: REPORTS REVIEWS AND ROYAL ROYAL COMMISSION –
1863 AT THE ROYAL ROYAL ACADEMY
1 1 1 1 1 E E E E T T T T Cook and and Alexander Wedderburn The Library Edition of of the Works of John Ruskin 14 London 1903–12 p 22 Hereafter ‘Cook and Wedderburn’ 2 His breach with the the artist was permanent after the the annulment of his marriage marriage to to Effie and her subsequent marriage marriage to to Millais on 3 July 1855 3 Cook and Wedderburn 14 p 107 4 Art Journal 1 1 1 June 1963 p 107 5 5 The Saturday Review 9 9 May 1863 p 592 6 6 The Spectator 9 9 May 1863 p p 1980 7 7 Fraser’s Magazine June 1863 pp 791-2 8 8 Art Journal 1 1 1 June 1863 p 109 9 The Saturday Review 16 May 1863 p 628 10 Ibid 11 11 The Times 2 May 1863 p 11 11 12 Athenaeum 2 2 May 1863 p 589 13 The Saturday Review 16 May 1863 p 628 14 Laurel Bradley ‘Millais Our Popular Painter’ p p 186 in in Mancoff 7: PAST OWNERS
1 2 3 4 Gambart bought bought My First Sermon for 400 guineas but Agnew’s bought bought it it from him immediately and paid the the artist an an additional £200 for the the the copyright M M Warner The Professional Career of of of John Everett Millais to to 1863 with a a a a a a a a a catalogue of of of of his works to to the the the same date Ph D thesis University of of London 1985 pp 134-35 Agnew’s day books for this year have not not survived the the picture is is noted in in the the the stock book book as as being sold to to to John John Graham Graham but with no no no further details It seems probable that it it was to to to John John Graham Graham Senior (1797-1886) who resided at at Skelmorlie Castle however his nephew also also John Graham (1817-1894) was also also a a a a a a a a a a a client of Agnew’s and lived at at at Albert Gate Although Horner Time Remembered 1933 p 27 notes that William Graham Junior’s brother John also had ‘a small but very choice collection collection of water-colours’ when his collection collection was sold at at Christie’s on on on 5 May 1894 it it included Pre-Raphaelite paintings such as Florence by by by night and and and Jerusalem by by by Holman Hunt Music and and and The The Building of the Brazen Tower by by by by Burne-Jones and and and The The Loving Cup by Rossetti Graham’s Port still a a a a a a a a well-known brand name today was one of its most popular commodities 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 O Garnett The Letters and Collection of William Graham Walpole Society 62 London 2000 p 188 William Graham (1817-1885) Liberal MP for Glasgow was a a a a a a a a a a a a Scottish politician wine merchant cotton manufacturer and port port shipper He was an an an an an an an an an important patron of of Pre-Raphaelite artists like Edward Burne-Jones and and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and and a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a collector of of their works Graham commissioned The Blessed Damozel 1871 (Fogg Museum of Art Harvard University) from Dante Gabriel Rossetti and also owned La Donna Della Finestra 1880 (Lord Lloyd-Webber Collection) The Girlhood of the Virgin Mary 1848-49 (Tate (Tate London) London) and Ecce Ancilla Domini 1849-50 (Tate (Tate London) London) Graham also acquired many pieces from Burne-Jones: Laus Veneris (Laing Art Gallery Newcastle upon Tyne) and Chant d’Amour (Metropolitan Museum of Art New New York) The Graham Graham piano was painted by Burne-Jones for Graham’s daughter Frances (Mrs Horner Horner later Lady Horner) Redford compiled a a a a history of of of sales of of of pictures and other works of of of art W Roberts Memorials of Christie’s II London London 1897 p p 122 quoting G Redford Art Sales I I I London London 1888 p p 446 John Graham was a a a a a a a a tenant of of of the the the castle and restored it it with the the the permission of of of the the Earl of of of Eglinton Kirkman Kirkman Finlay Finlay Finlay the the the younger was the the the eldest eldest son son of of James Finlay Finlay Finlay himself the the the eldest eldest son son of Kirkman Kirkman Finlay Finlay Senior E R Dibdin ‘Mr Brockbank’s Collection at Childwall Hall’ The Magazine of Art 1891 pp 89-92 Ibid p 90 Matsukata owned another work by Millais Ducklings 1889 (National Museum of Western Art Tokyo) 50