George Woolliscroft Rhead (1855-1920)
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George Woolliscroft Rhead (1855-1920)

O Salutaris Hostia

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George Woolliscroft Rhead (1855-1920)
O Salutaris Hostia
signed with monogram and dated '1885' (lower left) and inscribed 'O SÀLVTÀRIS . HOSTI QVÀE . COELI . PÀNDIS . OSTIVM . BELLÀ . PREMVNT . HOSTILIÀ . DÀ...OBVR . FER . ÀVXILIVM .' (lower centre)
oil on canvas, unframed
36 x 79 in. (91.4 x 200.7 cm.)
來源
P. Claas.
with The James Coats Gallery, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 1995, lot 133.
Mr. Sylvester Stallone; Christie's, New York, 12 October 2011, lot 56, where purchased by the present owner.
展覽
London, Royal Academy, 1885, no. 677.
London, The Fine Art Society Ltd, June 1969, no. 4231.
Palm Beach, The Society of the Four Arts, no. 66-4-15.
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拍品專文

George Woolliscroft Rhead was born in North Staffordshire in 1855. His father was a talented pottery designer and George moved to London in 1871 to work for the Minton studio under the directorship of W. S. Coleman. He then gained a scholarship to study at the South Kensington School of Art. He studied painting under the Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown, and etching under the French master Alphonse Legros. A painter, etcher, and designer of stained glass and ceramics, George Woolliscroft Rhead was a central figure of the English Arts and Crafts Movement. He was married twice, to Louise in 1894, and to the Scottish artist Annie French in 1914.

O Salutaris Hostia (O saving victim) is a hymn, written in the 13th Century by St Thomas Aquinas for the feast of Corpus Christi. It is often sung during the Eucharist and has had many musical settings over the centuries by composers such as Palestrina, Beethoven and Liszt. The present painting is perhaps inspired by Donatello's and Luca della Robbia's Cantorie in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.

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