John Brett
MacLeod's maidens, Skye (natural sculpture), 1884
signed and dated 1884
oil on canvas
39 ½ x 82 ½ inches (100 x 209.5 cm)
Provenance
Agnew's, sold to T. J. Hirst, 30 May 1884 for £800; his widow, until 1944; Higginbotham family, The Grange, Perton, near Wolverhampton; Fred Cooper, and thence by descent
Exhibitions
Royal Academy, London, 1884, no. 395; Leeds Municipal Art Galleries, 1888, no. 442; Huddersfield Art Gallery, Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition, 1893
Literature
Blackburn's Academy Notes, 1884, ill. pg. 38; Birmingham Daily Post, 6 May 1884; Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 16 May 1884; Athenaeum, 7 June 1884, pg. 734; Art Journal, 1884, pg. 211; Magazine of Art, 1884, pg. 394; Leeds Mercury, 3 Nov 1888; Huddersfield Daily Chronicle, 2 Oct 1893, C. Payne, John Brett: Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter (New Haven 2010) pp. 150, 228, cat. no. 1051
