Details
Arthur Hughes (1832-1915)
The Staircase at Penkill
signed with initials,
oil on card
16 x 12in. (40.6 x 30.5cm)
The Staircase at Penkill
signed with initials,
oil on card
16 x 12in. (40.6 x 30.5cm)
Literature
William Bell Scott, Autobiogrpahical Notes, 1892, II, rept, facing p.82
W.E. Fredeman, 'A Pre-raphaelite Gazette: The Penkill Letters of Arthur Hughes to William Bell Scott and Alice Boyd, 1886-97, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 49, 1966-7, pp356-8, 362
Like lot 157, the picture was painted as an illustration to Bell Scott's Autobiographical Notes, being completed by early April 1892. It shows part of the mural which Scott painted on the staircase at Penkill during the years 1865-8, taking as his subject The King's Quair, a poem written in the 1420's by James I of Scotland when he was a prisoner in Windsor Castle. Hughes carried out restorations to the murals when staying at Penkill in the early 1890's.
For modern photographs of the murals see Country Life, 21 March 1991, pp.118-9
W.E. Fredeman, 'A Pre-raphaelite Gazette: The Penkill Letters of Arthur Hughes to William Bell Scott and Alice Boyd, 1886-97, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 49, 1966-7, pp356-8, 362
Like lot 157, the picture was painted as an illustration to Bell Scott's Autobiographical Notes, being completed by early April 1892. It shows part of the mural which Scott painted on the staircase at Penkill during the years 1865-8, taking as his subject The King's Quair, a poem written in the 1420's by James I of Scotland when he was a prisoner in Windsor Castle. Hughes carried out restorations to the murals when staying at Penkill in the early 1890's.
For modern photographs of the murals see Country Life, 21 March 1991, pp.118-9