JOHN RODDAM SPENCER STANHOPE
1829-1908

IMPORTANT ART FROM THE JOHN SCHAEFFER AO COLLECTION

JOHN RODDAM SPENCER STANHOPE

1829-1908
The Vision of Ezekiel: The Valley of Dry Bones (1902)

watercolour and body colour with gum Arabic and pencil on paper
signed and inscribed 'R. Spencer Stanhope / Florence' verso (on backing board)
154.2 x 100.8 cm

Provenance

Mr Joseph Dixon, London, until 1911
Christie's, London, 18 March 1911, lot 29, 18 gns
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Mrs Anna Maria Wilhelmina Diana Stirling, London
Trustees of the De Morgan Foundation, London
Important British & Irish Art, Christie's, London, 28 November 2001, lot 9, illustrated
Mr John Schaeffer AO, Sydney, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1902, no. 939
Special Collection of Works by the late R Spencer Stanhope, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham, Autumn 1909, no. 51
Pictures and Drawings by the late R Spencer Stanhope, Carfax Gallery, London, March 1909, no. 24
The Victorian Imagination, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2 January – 8 February 1998; Shizouka Prefectural Museum of Art, 11 April – 24 May 1998; Daimaru Museum, Kobe, 28 May – 9 June 1998; Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki, 14 June – 20 July 1998, no. 27
Masterworks of Victorian Art from the Collection of John H. Schaeffer, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah, 15 February – 16 August 2008
The John H. Schaeffer Collection of Victorian and European Art, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah, 26 August 2009 – 28 February 2010
Victorian Visions: Nineteenth Century Art from the John Schaeffer Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 May – 29 August 2010, no. 31, illustrated

Literature

A Painter of Dreams', The Morning Post, London, 11 March 1909, p. 3
A.M.W. Stirling, A Guide to Old Battersea House and the De Morgan Collection, London, 1955, cat. no. 91, p. 30
The De Morgan Foundation at Old Battersea House: Paintings and Drawings by Evelyn De Morgan, Roddam Spencer-Stanhope and William De Morgan, Ceramics by William De Morgan, Wandsworth Borough Council, London, 1983, cat. no. 47, p. 29, inside front cover (illustrated)
Francesco Fiumara, A Painter Hidden: John Roddam Spencer Stanhope: His Life, His Work, His Friends: The British Period, 1829-1880, PhD, University of Messina, 1993, p. 373
Richard Beresford, Victorian Visions: Nineteenth Century Art from the John Schaeffer Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, pp. 112, 113 (illustrated)