The Romans Leaving Britain. Sir John Everett Millais
'The Romans bade the Britaynes farewell, as not minding to returne thither agayne.'
signed with monogram and dated 1865 l.r.
oil on canvas
122 by 190.5 cm., 48 by 75 in.
Provenance
Sir Isaac Lothian Bell, Bt., Washington Hall, County Durham and thence by descent to the present owner
Exhibited
Royal Academy, 1865, no. 294;
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Mechanics Institute, 1866, no. 131;
Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1867, no. 80b, lent by Isaac Lothian Bell;
Royal Academy, Sir J. E. Millais, Bt., Special Exhibition, 1898, no.72;
On loan to Middlesborough Art Gallery, 1967
Literature
Athenaeum, 9 April 1865, pp. 591-592;
Art Journal, 1865, pp. 166-1667;
Frederic George Stephens, '[The Collection of Sir Isaac Lothian Bell at] Washington Hall, Durham', Athenaeum, 18 October 1873, p. 500;
M. H. Spielmann, Millais and his Works, 1898, pp. 107-108, 170, 184;
John Guile Millais, The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, 2 volumes, 1899, Vol. I, pp. 384-385;
Alfred Lys Baldry, Sir John Everett Millais - His Art and Influence, 1899, pp. 49, 60;
PRB Millais PRA, catalogue of the exhibition held at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and at the Royal Academy, London, 1967, p. 15;
Pre-Raphaelites - Painters and Patrons in the North East, catalogue of the exhibition held at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1990, pp. 18, 21, 35-36, 91;
G. H. Flemming, John Everett Millais - A Biography, 1998, pp. 209-210, 213
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