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Provenance
Fine Art Society, London, June 1974, no. 5661.
Property of a Gentleman collector.
Exhibited
Compton, Watts Gallery, The Vision of G. F. Watts, OM, RA (1817-1904), 2 July - 31 October 2004, no. 24.
Literature
Veronica Franklin Gould (ed), The Vision of G.F.Watts OM RA (1817-1904), exhibition catalogue, Salisbury, 2004, p. 55, illustrated.
Writing the catalogue to accompany the Watts exhibition of 2004, the compilers note that the present lot was most likely painted around 1883-4, using drawings made in the late 1860s. The model for Hero is Madeline Wyndham, who Watts also depicted in a full length portrait (Grosvenor Gallery, 1877. no. 22).