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Title
Diogenes
1882
Artist
John William Waterhouse
England
06 Apr 1849 - 10 Feb 1917
Details
Date
1882
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions
208.3 x 134.6 cm stretcher; 249.0 x 177.4 x 17.0 cm frame
Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., brown paint "J W Waterhouse 1882" .
Credit
Purchased 1886
Accession number
720
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John William Waterhouse
Diogenes
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Exhibition history
Royal Academy of Arts, 1882, Exhibition Venue Unknown, 1882–1882
Victorian Olympians:
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 20 Jun 1975–20 Jul 1975
- National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne 12 Aug 1975–14 Sep 1975
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 26 Sep 1975–26 Oct 1975
Victorian dreamers: masterpieces of neo-classical and aesthetic movements in Britain, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan, 08 Apr 1989–07 May 1989
J. W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite:
- Groninger Museum, Netherlands 13 Dec 2008–03 May 2009
- Royal Academy of Arts, London 27 Jun 2009–13 Sep 2009
Provenance
R.J. Jeffray, pre Apr 1886, Australia, Sold April 1886 through Messrs. Gemmell, Tucket and Co., at Devoirgilla, Toorak, Melbourne.
Henry Wallis, Apr 1886, Purchased by the AGNSW from Henry Wallis 1886
Referenced in 38 publications
Bibliography
Renée Free, Art and Australia, vol 10, no 1, 'European Collection', Sydney, Jul 1972, p 67.
Elizabeth Prettejohn, J W Waterhouse: the modern Pre-Raphaelite, 'Waterhouse's imagination', Groningen, 2008-2010, pp 26, 90, no 11, col illus p 91.
Tom Roberts, Argus, ‘The National Art Gallery of New South Wales’, Melbourne, 31 Oct 1891, p 4.
Rose E D Sketchley, Art Journal, ‘The art annual: the art of J W Waterhouse, RA’, London, Dec 1909, p 32, illus p 20.
Rose E D Sketchley, Art Journal, Article, London, 1910, p 20, illus p 32.
John Christian, Victorian dreamers: masterpieces of neo-classical and aesthetic; movements in Britain, Tokyo, 1989, pp 131–32, no 58, col illus p 92, pl 58, illus p 131.
Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, p 205, illus p 205.
Unknown, The art and life of J W Waterhouse, RA, 1849–1917, London, 1980, pp 31, 36, 65, 181, no 48, col illus p 27, pl 16.
Patricia Crawford, History and legend in some selected paintings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1980, p 6, illus p 6.
Renée Free and Peter Laverty, Victorian Olympians, Sydney, 1975, pp 28–29, no 38, col illus p 50.
Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, p 175, no 2236.
Unknown, J W Waterhouse, 'Italy and classical heritage', London, 2002, pp 47, 49–51, 59, 62, 97, col illus pp 8 (detail), 48.
Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 15 Apr 1886.
Argus, ‘Mr Jeffray’s collection of pictures’, Melbourne, 15 Apr 1886, p 6.
Age, Melbourne, 15 Apr 1886.
The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts … the one hundred and fourteenth, London, 1882, p 56, no 1515.
Henry Blackburn (Editor), Academy notes 1882, London, 1882, p 77, illus p 77 (sketch).
Sydney Morning Herald, 'News of the day', Sydney, 17 Jul 1886, p 11.
Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Music, the drama, and art’, Sydney, 02 Sep 1886, p 4.
Sydney Mail, ‘New picture for the Art Gallery’, Sydney, 28 Aug 1886, p 441, illus p 442 (in frame).
Illustrated Sydney News, ‘The history of the Art Gallery of NSW’, Sydney, 22 Feb 1888, p 15, illus (sketch as part of article title).
Angus Trumble (Curator), Love and Death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Adelaide, 2001-2002, p 198, col illus p 199. Not exhibited.
Sydney Morning Herald, ‘National Art Gallery – the interchange question’, Sydney, 15 Oct 1895, p 3.
Catalogue of the second interchange loan collections of oil paintings and water-colour drawings exhibited in the Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide Galleries, April 1896, Sydney, 1896, p 67, no 4, illus p 66.
Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, London, 1905-1906, vol 8, 1906, p 161.
National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1906, p 1, no 2.
National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 6, no 2.
National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 18, no 20.
Unknown, The children’s encyclopedia, London, [1939], illus p 5003.
An exhibition of a selected number of subject pictures belonging to the national collection, typescript exh cat, Sydney, Jul 1943, p 1.
Old favourites, Sydney, 1954, np.
Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report for the year ended 30th June 1989, Sydney, 1989, p 75. Loan.
Andrew Bolton Marvick, The art of John William Waterhouse: eclecticism in late nineteenth-century painting, New York, 1994, pp 99–101, 103, 179, 181–82.
Margaret Sawicki, ‘Picture frame conservation or… repairing?, AICCM Bulletin, vol 20, no 2, 1995, pp 17–25: pp 23–24.
Richard Beresford, Pre-Raphaelites and Olympians, selected works of Victorian art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 2001, unnumbered, pp 5, 53, col illus p 54.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 2008–09, Sydney, 2009, p 96.
Richard Beresford, Victorian visions: nineteenth century art from the John Schaeffer collection, Sydney, 2010, p 16.
Unknown, J W Waterhouse, Oxford, 1989, pp 25, 39–40, col illus p 27, pl 17.