id: 171588 accession number: 2014.373 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.373 updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:02.981000 The Life of Buckingham, c. 1855. Augustus Leopold Egg (British, 1816-c. 1863). Oil on board ; framed: 54.1 x 64.5 x 10.2 cm (21 5/16 x 25 3/8 x 4 in.); unframed: 30.5 x 40.5 cm (12 x 15 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 2014.373 title: The Life of Buckingham title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1855 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1900 current location: 203B British Painting and Decorative Arts creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century, Victorian technique: oil on board department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: Paintings type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Augustus Leopold Egg (British, 1816-c. 1863) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 54.1 x 64.5 x 10.2 cm (21 5/16 x 25 3/8 x 4 in.); Unframed: 30.5 x 40.5 cm (12 x 15 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020) opening date: 2020-06-30T04:00:00 British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE by 1865 - 1876: James Dugdale (1813-1876), Wroxall Abbey, Warwick date: footnotes: citations: 1876 - 1927: by descent to his son James Broughton Dugdale (1855-1927) date: footnotes: citations: 1927: James Broughton Dugdale sale, Christie's, June 24, 1927, (lot 133 with 134) date: footnotes: citations: 1927 - ?: "bt. Martin and Sampson, respectively The Toast of the King and The Death Chamber, both for total price of £25 4s [Christie's notes say 24 gns to Harrison with lot 134; research ongoing] date: footnotes: citations: ?: with Anthony Hordern, Sydney, Australia [research ongoing] date: footnotes: citations: ? - 2014:hitherto undisclosed American private collection [research ongoing] date: footnotes: citations: 2014: bought in at Christie's London "Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art" sale on June 17, 2014 (lot 13) date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2014- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description:
Augustus Leopold Egg’s The Life of Buckingham depicts a fictional moment in the debauched, roguish life of George Villiers (1628–1687), 2nd Duke of Buckingham (seated at the center, wearing white). Although the scene is invented,
the merrymakers and courtesans depicted around the table (among them King Charles II, to Buckingham’s right) were characters the duke would have personally known and were familiar to Victorian audiences who delighted in the
cautionary tale of excess. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Temple, A. G. The Art of Painting in the Queen's Reign; Being a Glance at Some of the Painters and Paintings of the British School During the Last Sixty Years. London, United Kingdom: Chapman and Hall, 1897. page number: Mentioned: p. 54-55 url: Faberman, Hilarie. Augustus Leopold Egg, R.A. (1816-1863). Thesis PhD Cambridge, MA:Yale University, 1983, 1985. page number: Mentioned: p. 488-489 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2014.373/2014.373_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2014.373/2014.373_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2014.373/2014.373_full.tif