Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania and Bottom . Edwin Henry Landseer
Painting
Description
This
Edwin Landseer painting was commissioned by the engineer Isambard
Kingdom Brunel to hang on his dining room wall as part of a series of
Shakespeare-themed works. The painting, its subject likely selected by
Landseer for its close ties to animals, was popular from its first
exhibition; a young Victoria (future Queen of England) described it as
"a gem, beautifully fairy-like and graceful". (Source: Google Art
description)
Date (1848-1851)
oil on canvas
Height: 820 mm (32.28 in). Width: 1,330 mm (52.36 in).
National Gallery of Victoria
Accession number 4658-3
Object history
Commissioned
by Isambard Kingdom Brunel Esq. (1806–59), London, 1850 (for his
Shakespeare Room); exhibited Royal Academy, London, 1851, no. 157;
included in the Brunel estate sale, Christie's London, 20 April 1860,
no. 223; from where purchased by Lord Robert Pelham-Clinton (1820–67),
North Nottinghamshire; his collection 1860–67; collection of Adelbert
Wellington Brownlow-Cust (1844–1921), 3rd Earl Brownlow, London,
Belton, Lincolnshire and Ashridge House, Berkamsted, by 1873– c. 1886;
exhibited Winter exhibtion of works by Landseer, Royal Academy, London,
1874, no. 236, owner Earl Brownlow; from whom acquired by Sir William
Cuthbert Quilter (1841–1911), 1st Baronet, Bawdsey Manor, Suffolk; his
collection until 1909; included in a Christie's sale, London, 9 July
1909; from where purchased by Henry (Heinz) Lowenfeld (d. 1931, Paris);
Lowenfeld collection, London, 1931; offered for purchase by Mrs Henry
Lowenfeld (widow), from whom acquired, on the advice of Randall Davies,
for the Felton Bequest, 1932.
Exhibition history Royal Academy summer exhibition, Trafalgar Square, 1851, Cat. no. 157
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