“Leal” by Edward Clifford (original) (raw)

The eminent art collector William Graham acquired this watercolour through Agnews on May 6, 1867, one of Clifford’s first sales of a picture (Garnett, 292). It was subsequently offered for sale twice at Sotheby's Belgravia in the mid 1970s. The picture features the same model in an identical pose as in Mens Conscia Recti, but it was obviously painted earlier. Without the imaginative mysterious landscape in the background, however, it fails to elicit the same sublime mood conveyed by Mens Conscia Recti. — Dennis T. Lanigan

Bibliography

Garnett, Oliver. “The Letters and Collection of William Graham – Pre-Raphaelite Patron and Pre-Raphaelite Collector.” The Walpole Society Journal LXII (2000): 145-343.

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