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(May 5 \u2013May 19, 1930).", "opening_date": "1930-05-19T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>William Blake.</em> Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (1939).", "opening_date": "1939-01-01T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Thomas Butts [1757 - 1845], London, by descent to his son, Thomas Butts, Jr.", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1799-1845", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "Thomas Butts, Jr. [died 1862], London", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1845-1862", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "William Michael Rossetti [1829-1919], London", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "by 1863-?", "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "William Bell Scott [1811-1890], consigned to sale at Sotheby's, London", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "by 1876-1892", "sortorder": 4}, {"description": "(Sotheby's, London, July 14, 1892, no. 238, sold to Quaritch)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1892", "sortorder": 5}, {"description": "(Quaritch, sold to E.H. van Ingen for Mrs. William Emerson)", "citations": [], "footnotes": ["<div><!--block-->Purchased by Quaritch at Sotheby's sale for \u00a327</div>"], "date": "1892-1893", "sortorder": 6}, {"description": "Mrs. William Emerson, consigned to sale at Sotheby's, London", "citations": [], "footnotes": ["<div><!--block-->E.H. van Ingen purchased the painting for Mrs. William Emerson from Quaritch, were it was listed in <em>catalogue 62</em> of 1893 for \u00a336</div>"], "date": "1893-1958", "sortorder": 7}, {"description": "(Sotheby's London, May 19, 1958, no.12, bought by Agnew for Lady Melchett)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1958", "sortorder": 8}, {"description": "Lady Melchett [1928-], sold at Christie's, London", "citations": [], "footnotes": ["<div><!--block-->Agnew purchased the painting for Lady Melchett from the Sotheby's sale for \u00a31,300</div>"], "date": "1958-1971", "sortorder": 9}, {"description": "(Christie's London, November 9, 1971, no. 71, bought by Piccadilly Gallery)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [""], "date": "1971-?", "sortorder": 10}, {"description": "(Piccadilly Gallery, London, sold to Galleria Galatea)", "citations": [], "footnotes": ["<div><!--block-->The painting was purchase by the Piccadilly Gallery, London from Christie's for 5,000 gns</div>"], "date": null, "sortorder": 11}, {"description": "(Galleria Galatea, Turin, sold to private collector, Milan)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 12}, {"description": "private collector, Milan", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "by 1981-?", "sortorder": 13}, {"description": "(Ben Elwes Fine Art, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "2016-17", "sortorder": 15}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "2017-", "sortorder": 16}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Like St. Matthew, William Blake reported having visions of angels throughout his life.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The energy and awe with which the evangelist Saint Matthew responds to the angel presenting the divinely inspired text echoes William Blake\u2019s attitude toward artistic inspiration. 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