Mrs. Sturgis and Children

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1855

Emily Mary Osborn (English, 1834–1918)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Emily Mary Osborn
Title: Mrs. Sturgis and Children
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1855
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 228.6 × 132.1 cm (90 × 52 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Robert P. Coale
Reference Number: 2008.622

James Dafforne, “British Artists: Their Style and Character, No. LXX—-Emily Mary Osborn,” Art Journal 26 (1864): 261.
Ann Sutherland Harris and Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550–1950, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976), 88 (ill.), 228–229.
Charlotte Yeldham, Women Artists in the Nineteenth-Century France and England: Their Art Education, Exhibition Opportunities and Membership of Exhibiting and Summery Biographies, vol. 1 (New York: Garland, 1984), 309.
Deborah Cherry, Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists (London: Routledge, 1993), 47, 97, 99.
Robert Coale, Emily Mary Osborn, A “Female Artist” in the Victorian Art World, unpub. Article.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1855, cat. 266.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Women Artists: 1550–1950, Dec. 21, 1976– Mar. 13, 1977, cat. 82; Austin, TX, University Art Museum, Apr. 12–June 5, 1977; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, July 14–Sep. 4, 1977; New York, Brooklyn Museum, Oct. 4–Nov. 27, 1977.

Sold by the artist, 1856, for 200 guineas [according to Cherry, 1993]. Sold at auction, London to The Perfect Touch Gallery, Chicago, 1975 [according to a letter from Robert Coale August 21, 1979 in curatorial file]; sold to Robert Coale (d. 2007), Chicago, May 14, 1975; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.

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