Private collection, USA
Arthur Brett
- Oil on unlined canvas
- 19 × 16 inches · 490 × 410 mm
- Signed and inscribed lower left: ‘Portrait of Arthur/ John Brett/ March 1859’;
Inscribed on the reverse: ‘Lt Colonel Arthur Brett as a young man Queens Bay... painted by his brother John Brett ARA
Collections
- By descent in the artist's family to 2019;
- Sotheby's, 10 December 2019, lot 2
Exhibitions
- Birmingham, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, London, The Fine Art Society and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Objects of Affection - Pre-Raphaelite Portraits by John Brett, 2010, no.2.
Literature
- Christiana Payne and Charles Brett, Objects of Affection - Pre-Raphaelite Portraits by John Brett, exh.cat, 2010, p.18-19, 44, reproduced p.45;
- Christiana Payne and Charles Brett, John Brett Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter, Yale, 2010, p.205, no.306.