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The flaming heart, after Rossetti
Painter: Murray, Charles Fairfax
History note: Anon. sale (= H.J. Brown), Christie's, 3 March 1924 (34); late W. Lawson Peacock sale, Christie's, 6 February 1925 (117), bt. Stone; coll. Charles Ricketts, R.A., and C.H. Shannon, R.A., by 1926; on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum from C.H. Shannon, 1933-7
The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937
Height: 33 cm
Width: 27.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Shannon, Charles Haslewood
Production date: AD 1863
This is a copy by Fairfax Murray of D.G. Rossetti's painting of 1863, Helen of Troy, now at Hamburg (Kunsthalle, no. 2469); the figure was painted from a model called Annie Miller.
Support composed of panel (wood)
Painting (image-making) : Oil on panel
Inscription present: monogram
Accession number: 2293
Primary reference Number: 3691
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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