
Thomas Seaman
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Provenance
The collection of Calvery Toulmin, by 1886.
With Thomas Agnew & Sons, Manchester.
The collection of C. Houghton Brown Esq, by 1947.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Belgravia, 9 July 1974, lot 66.
Private collection.
A work of this title was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1868, no. 284. In reviewing the exhibition, the Art Journal noted, of Mater Dolorosa and its pair Mater Purissima that 'to paint the Madonna on a scale larger than life is a perilous attempt ... and certainly we have seldom seen tones treated with more tenderness or refinement. In fact, the general aspect of these works is essentially modern'1.
1Art Journal, 1868, p. 101.