National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: The Rape of Proserpine
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Provenance

Possibly William Wethered [d. 1863], King's Lynn, Norfolk, and, by 1849, London.[1] John Chapman [1810-1877], Hill End, Cheshire, and Carlecotes, Yorkshire, by 1852;[2] by descent to his son, Edward Chapman [1839-1906]. (Arthur J. Sulley & Co.), London, in joint ownership with (Thos. Agnew & Co.), London; purchased 1912 from (Arthur J. Sulley & Co.), New York, by Watson B. Dickerman [1846-1923]; passed to his wife, Florence E. Dickerman, New York; gift to NGA, 1951.

[1] The evidence for Wethered's possible ownership of the picture is discussed in Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, 2d rev. ed., 2 vols., (New Haven and London, 1984), I: 232.

[2] According to a note in the copy of the Royal Academy catalogue of 1839, in Agnew's library (Butlin and Joll, per note 1 above).

Exhibition History

1839
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1839, no. 360, with Ovid's Metam. (appended to the title).
1857
Art Treasures of the United Kingdom: Paintings by Modern Masters, Art Treasures Palace, Manchester, 1857, no. 191, as Pluto Carrying Away Prosperine.
1887
Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Fine Arts Galleries, Manchester, 1887, no. 609.
1892
Loan Collection of Pictures, Corporation of London Art Gallery, Guildhall, 1892, no. 112.
1896
Works by the Old Masters, and by Deceased Masters of the British School. Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1896, no. 28.
1899
Pictures and Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., and a Selection of Pictures by Some of His Conemporaries, Corporation of London Art Gallery, Guildhall, 1899, no. 35.
1908
Paintings Lent by George John Chapman, Esq. and the Executors of the Late Edward Chapman, Esq., City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1908, no. 020.
1914
Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. and J.M.W. Turner, R.A., M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1914, no. 37.

Bibliography

1839
Art-Union 1 (15 May 1839): 69.
1839
Athenaeum 602 (11 May 1839): 357.
1839
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 46 (September 1839): 313.
1839
Fraser's Magazine 19 (19 June 1839): 744.
1839
Spectator 12, no. 567 (11 May 1839): 447.
1846
Ruskin, John. Modern Painters. 5 vols. London, 1843-1856, 1 (3d ed., 1846): 129-130. The Works of John Ruskin. Edited by E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. 39 vols. London and New York, 1903-1912: 3:242.
1857
Waagen, Gustav Friedrich. Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of more than Forty Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Mss., &c.&c.. London, 1857: 419-420.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 133
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 120, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 354, repro.
1980
Collected Correspondence of J.M.W. Turner. Edited by John Gage. Oxford, 1980: 297.
1981
Shanes, Eric. Review of The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner. by Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll 1972. In Turner Studies 1 (1981): 46.
1984
Butlin, Martin and Evelyn Joll. The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner. 2 vols. New Haven and London, 1977 (2d rev. ed., 1984): 1: no. 380; 2: pl. 384.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 406, repro.
1992
Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 280-283, repro. 281.
2011
Pergam, Elizabeth A. The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857: Entrepeneurs, Connoisseurs and the Public. Farnham and Burlington, 2011: 69, 313.

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