Interior of the Gold Room, Townshend House, London
Framed: 27 1/2 × 21 × 1 1/2 inches (69.85 × 53.34 × 3.81 cm)
Exhibition of Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours, Water-Colour Room, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Art, London, 1885, no. 1273, as The Gold-Room.
Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, September 22–December 3, 1989; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 17–March 25, 1990, unnumbered, as Interior of the Gold Room.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23–August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum of Art and Garden, Jacksonville, September 20–November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996–March 2, 1997; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12–September 6, 1998, no. 77, as attributed to Anna Alma-Tadema, Interior of the Gold Room, Townshend House, London, 1883 or thereafter.
Color and Line: Masterworks on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 5–November 11, 2007; February 26–August 10, 2014, no cat.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, October 1, 2016–February 7, 2017; Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, February 24–June 18, 2017; Leighton House Museum, London, July 7–October 29, 2017 (Leeuwarden and Vienna only), unnumbered.
Orchestrating Elegance: Alma-Tadema and Design, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, June 4–September 4, 2017.
The artist, London, 1885;
With Durlacher Brothers, New York, by November 22-December 17, 1963;
Purchased from Durlacher through the Sales and Rental Gallery, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Kansas City, MO, December 17, 1963-1980 [1];
His bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.
NOTES:
[1] NAMA Archives, RG 43/02, Friends of Art Records, Box 13, Sales and Rental Gallery Show Files, 1960-84, Collectors’ European Art Market 1963.
Henry Lassalle, ed., The Royal Academy Illustrated (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1885), 95, as The Gold-Room.
“The Royal Academy,” The Times (London), no. 31,467 (June 8, 1885): 4, as The Gold Room.
“Final Notes on the Academy,” Truth 17, no. 441 (June 11, 1885): 929, as The Gold Room.
“The Picture Gallery,” Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art 59, no. 1,548 (June 27, 1885): 857, as The Gold Room.
Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904 (London: Henry Graves and George Bell and Sons, 1905), 1:28, as The Gold Room.
Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis: Washington University, 1989), 10, 63, (repro.), as Interior of the Gold Room.
Patricia Corbett, “Connoisseur’s World: Power Lines,” Connoisseur 219, no. 934 (November 1989): 44, as Interior of the Gold Room.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 46, 210, (repro.), as Interior of the Gold Room.
Edwin Becker et al., eds., Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, exh. cat. (New York: Rizzoli, 1996), 48–49, (repro.).
Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 31, 233–34, (repro.), as attributed to Anna Alma-Tadema, Interior of the Gold Room, Townshend House, London, 1883 or thereafter.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 123, (repro.), as attributed to Anna Alma-Tadema, Interior of the Gold Room,Townshend House, London.
Judith A. Neiswander, The Cosmopolitan Interior: Liberalism and the British Home 1870-1914 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), 50–52, (repro.), as Interior of the Gold Room, Townshend House, London.
Margot Th. Brandlhuber and Michael Buhrs, eds., In the Temple of the Self: The Artist’s Residence as a Total Work of Art, Europe and America 1800–1948, exh. cat. (Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2013), 107–8, 110, 116, (repro.), as Interior of the Gold Room, Townshend House, London.
Elizabeth Prettejohn and Peter Trippi, eds., Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel, 2016), 85–86, 88, 227, (repro.), as Interior of the Gold Room, Townshend House.
Lida Dijkstra, Wonen in een schilderij/ Wenje yn in skilderij (Leeuwarden, The Netherlands: Uitgeverij Wijdemeer, 2016).
Kathleen M. Morris and Alexis Goodin, eds., Orchestrating Elegance: Alma-Tadema and the Marquand Music Room, exh. cat. (Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2017), 9–11, 185n23–24, 207, (repro.), as Interior of the Gold Room, Townshend House, London.
