Lot 19: EDWARD WILLIAM RAINFORD | Rosalind Telling Celia that Orlando is in the Forest

oil on panel

76 by 53cm., 30 by 21in.

oil on panel

The panel appears sound. The work appears a little dirty otherwise in good overall condition. Ultraviolet light reveals an opaque varnish. There appears to be some minor cosmetic retouching to the girl's face. Held in a gilt plaster frame.
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Royal Academy, 1853, no. 1288;
Port Sunlight, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Centenary Exhibition of Works by the Pre-Raphaelites – their Friends and Followers, 1948, no. 148, as by John Everett Millais (lent by Lord Leverhulme).

Athenaeum, no. 1333, 14 May 1853, p. 592;
Art Journal, 1853, p. 151

Thomas McLean, London;
Christie’s, 15 November 1902, lot 69, as Rosalind and Orlando by John Everett Millais (48 guineas to Shepherd);
James Gresham, Gallery House, Woodheys Park, Ashton-on-Mersey;
Christie’s, London, 12 July 1917, lot 97, as by John Everett Millais (100 guineas to Gooden & Fox on behalf of William Lever);
William Hesketh Lever, 1υst Viscount Leverhulme (1851-1925), ‘The Hill’, Hampstead and thence by descent to the 3υrd Viscount Leverhulme; Sotheby’s, Thornton Manor, Wirral, Merseyside, 26-28 June 2001, lot 397;
Christie's, 8 June 2006 lot 354