Archival History: According to Surtees, if this is the original version, the
provenance is as follows: John Ruskin; Arthur Severn; Bought by
Sigismund Neumann in London and given to the Johannesburg Art Gallery in
1912. But this picture seems to have been first owned by John Miller,
who may even have commissioned it (see Fredeman,
Correspondence, 62. 17.).
Scholarly Commentary
Production History
“According to
Marillier
‘more than one’ replica was made of this picture, but so
far as can be ascertained this is the original. It is the portrait of
Elizabeth Siddal, executed a few months after she became Rossetti's
wife” (Surtees,
A
Catalogue Raisonné
, vol. 1, 75 (no. 120)). The different accounts of the work's
provenance are probably explained by the multiple copies of the picture.
Scholarly Commentary
Production History
“According to Marillier ‘more than one’ replica was made of this picture, but so far as can be ascertained this is the original. It is the portrait of Elizabeth Siddal, executed a few months after she became Rossetti's wife” (Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 75 (no. 120)). The different accounts of the work's provenance are probably explained by the multiple copies of the picture.
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