Sir John Everett Millais
A Dream of Dawn, 1868
Watercolour on paper
24.5 x 17.5 cm.; 9 x 7 in.
Signed with monogram and dated '1868' (lower right)
WB4684
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
Probably bought from the artist by Sir John Fowler Bart. of Thornwood House, Campden Hill, and remaining with him until at least 1896;Thomas Agnew & Sons, London;
Collection of Barnet Lewis Esq., by 1908;
Private collection, UK;
Bonham’s, 22 January 2014, lot 92;
Private Collection;
Sotheby's, London, 12 July 2018, Lot 35;
Private Collection (purchased from the above)
Exhibitions
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Winter Exhibition, 1878-1879, no.825;London, Guildhall, Loan Exhibition of Water-colour Drawings, 1896;
London, Palace of Fine-Arts, Franco-British Exhibition, May-October 1908, no.472
Literature
The Examiner, 11 Jan 1879;Pall Mall Gazette, 30 January 1879
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