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The Convalescent
Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch, 1836–1912)
Title
The Convalescent
Artist
Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch, 1836–1912)
Date
1869
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
27 3/4 × 18 1/4 in. (70.5 × 46.4 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Gift of Francis T. B. Martin
Object Number
1991.3
On View
On view
Provenance
Purchased from Ernest Gambart by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, October 11, 1869–November 7, 1869;
Purchased from Thomas Agnew & Sons by J. K. Kennedy, November 7, 1869–April 3, 1870;
Purchased from J. L. Kennedy by Thomas Agnew & Sons, April 3, 1870–April 27, 1870;
Purchased from Thomas Agnew & Sons by the Right Honorable W. H. Smith, Henley-on-Thames;
By descent to W. F. D. Smith, Henley-on-Thames, by 1930;
Purchased at his sale, Christie’s, London, May 28, 1930, lot 157, by Nathan Mitchell, London, 1930–May 1935;
Consigned by Nathan Mitchell to John Levey Galleries, New York, by May 1935;
Purchased from John Levey Galleries by Charles W. Martin (1863–1944), Omaha, May 1935–November 27, 1940;
His gift to his nephew, Francis T. B. Martin (1904–1995), Omaha, November 27, 1940–December 1, 1989;
His gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1989.
Exhibition History
Royal Academy, London, 1870, no. 148.
Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876.
Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1882, no. 52.
Birmingham Royal Society of Arts, 1896, no. 351.
Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1913.
Worth a Thousand Words: 19th-Century Academic Paintings, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, January 20–March 20, 1994.
Stories of a Collection, Joslyn Art Museum, August 28–October 3, 1999.
Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England, Worcester Art Museum, November 11, 2017–February 4, 2018; Milwaukee Art Museum, March 1–May 20, 2018, no. 1.
Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022-January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.
Published References
James Dafforne, “The works of Laurence Alma-Tadema,” Art Journal 26 (1875): 12, (repro.).
Illustrated London News, May 14, 1870, 503.
Malcolm Henry Bell, Royal Academy Yearbook (London, 1870), 12, (repro.).
Edward Strahan, The Masterpieces of the Centennial International Exhibition (Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, 1876), 1: 69, 74, (repro.).
Art Journal (Christmas 1886): 10, 12–13, (repro.)
British Painters of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (London: J. S. Virtue, 1880), 138, (repro.).
Carel Vosmaer, “Alma-Tadema Catalogue Raisonné” (unpublished manuscript, c. 1885), 87.
Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, vol. 1 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1886), 30.
Helen Zimmern, The Great Modern Painters, English, French, German, etc., Medallist of successive Universal Exhibitions, vol. 2 (Paris, 1886), 10, 13, (repro.).
The Art Annual (1886), (repro.).
C. E. Clement and L. Huttons, Artists of the 19th Century (1889), 12.
Fedor Il’inch Bulgakov, Alma-Tadema (Petrograd, 1897), 19, (repro.).
Helen Zimmern, Bell’s Miniature Series of Painters: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, R.A. (London: George Bell & Sons, 1902), 68.
Art Journal (1910): 27, as Opus No. LXXI.
Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, exh. cat. (1913).
Art Prices Current, vo. 9 (1930), A177.
Vern G. Swanson, Alma-Tadema: The Painter of the Victorian vision in the Ancient world (New York: Charles Scribener’s Sons, 1977), 44, (repro.).
Vern G. Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (London: Garton & Co., 1990), 153, 322 (repro), no. 113.
R. J. Barrow, Lawrence Alma-Tadema (London: Paidon, 2001), 41.
Elizabeth Prettejohn and Peter Trippi, Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, exh. cat. (London: Prestel, 2017), 190, 191, (repro.).
Elizabeth Athens, Brandon Ruud, and Martha Tadeschi, Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press), 84, (repro.).