Lot 9: Sir John Everett Millais, P.R.A. (1829-1896)

Sir John Everett Millais, P.R.A. (1829-1896) Sisters signed with monogram and dated '1868' (lower left) oil on canvas 42½ x 42½ in. (108 x 108 cm.)

London, Royal Academy, 1868, no. 6. London, International Exhibition, 1871, no. 323, lent by C.P. Matthews. Vienna, International Exhibition, 1873, no. 48, lent by C.P. Matthews. Paris, Universal Exhibition, 1878, no. 179, lent by C.P. Matthews. London, Grosvenor Gallery, Millais Exhibition, 1886, no. 71 lent by C.P. Matthews. London, Guildhall, Corporation of London Art Gallery, 1897, no. 148, lent by Mrs C.E. Lees. London, Royal Academy, Millais Exhibition, 1898, lent by Mrs C.E. Lees. London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Winter Exhibition, 1901, no. 13, lent by Mrs C.E. Lees. Glasgow, Kelvingrove Park, International Exhibition, 1901, no. 261, lent by Mrs C.E. Lees. London, Tate, Millais, London, 2007, no. 90.

W.M. Rossetti and A. C. Swinburne, Notes on the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1868, London, 1868, pp. 2, 3, 53. F.G. Stephens, Exhibition of the Works of Sir John E. Millais, Bart., R.A., London, 1886, p. 44. M.H. Spielmann, Millais and His Works, Edinburgh and London, 1898, pp. 38, 48, 131, 137, 171, 184. J.G. Millais, The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, President of the Royal Academy, London, 1899, II, pp. 19, 473. W. Holman Hunt, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 2 vols. London and New York, 1905, II, p. 398. P. Funnell and M. Warner, Millais: Portraits, London and Princeton, 1999, pp. 112, 188, 190, 203, illustrated p. 113. J. Rosenfeld and A. Smith, Millais, London, 2007, pp. 13, 130-1, 140, 146, 194, 202, number 90, illustrated p. 147. S. F. Cooper, The Model Wife: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais, London, 2010, pp. 183-5, 187-8, 205, illustrated pl. 22. J. Rosenfeld, John Everett Millais, London, 2012, pp. 97, 115, 122-6, no. 67, illustrated p. 123.

with Agnew's, London. Charles P. Matthews, 23 Hertford Street, Havering-atte-Bower, Essex, by 1871. Charles E. and Sarah Lees, Werneth Park, Oldham, and by descent to his granddaughter. Eva Prodgers; Christie's, London, 2 July 1971, lot 190 (£4,410 to Matthews).