Saint John the Evangelist (Design for a stained-glass window, Bradford Cathedral)

Artists

Dimensions

89.5 x 36.7 cm (35 1/4 x 14 7/16 in.)

Provenance

[Possibly artist’s executor’s sale at T. G. Wharton, Auctioneers and Estate Agents, London, May 29-31, 1894, either lot 243 or 253, sold]; to possibly either Harold Rathbone or Westminster Technical Institute. [Sotheby’s Belgravia, London, March 18, 1980, lot 52, sold]; to Warren R. Stone (1980-1981), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1981. Notes: 1. In the 2010 Ford Madox Brown catalogue raisonné, Mary Bennett lists two lots from the T.G. Wharton, Auctioneers sale May 29-31, 1894 which may have included the drawing: lot 243 “St. John and St. Peter” and lot 253 “Charlemagne and St. John.” Mary Bennett is unable to verify with certainty, however, that this piece was part of either lot. If the design was sold as lot 243, it was purchased by Harold Rathbone; if it was sold as lot 253 it was purchased by Westminster Technical Institute. 2. In the same catalogue raisonné Mary Bennett further notes that in the FMBP copy of the T.G. Wharton Auctioneers sale catalogue the St. John listing for lot 253 is deleted.