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accession number: 2017.4
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St. Matthew, 1799. William Blake (British, 1757–1827). Tempera on canvas; overall: 38.5 x 26.5 cm (15 3/16 x 10 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 2017.4
title: St. Matthew
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creation date: 1799
creation date earliest: 1799
creation date latest: 1799
current location: 203B British Painting and Decorative Arts
creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture: England
technique: tempera on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - British before 1800
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* William Blake (British, 1757–1827) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 38.5 x 26.5 cm (15 3/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'The Works of William Blake. Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, United Kingdom (1876).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art: Pictures of Works of Art. The Meadows, Edinburgh, Scotland (May 6 – Oct 30, 1886).', 'opening_date': '1930-10-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Eighteenth Century English Paintings. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA. (May 5 –May 19, 1930).', 'opening_date': '1930-05-19T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'William Blake. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (1939).', 'opening_date': '1939-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Thomas Butts [1757 - 1845], London, by descent to his son, Thomas Butts, Jr.
date: 1799-1845
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Thomas Butts, Jr. [died 1862], London
date: 1845-1862
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William Michael Rossetti [1829-1919], London
date: by 1863-?
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William Bell Scott [1811-1890], consigned to sale at Sotheby's, London
date: by 1876-1892
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(Sotheby's, London, July 14, 1892, no. 238, sold to Quaritch)
date: 1892
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(Quaritch, sold to E.H. van Ingen for Mrs. William Emerson)
date: 1892-1893
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* Purchased by Quaritch at Sotheby's sale for £27
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Mrs. William Emerson, consigned to sale at Sotheby's, London
date: 1893-1958
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* E.H. van Ingen purchased the painting for Mrs. William Emerson from Quaritch, were it was listed in catalogue 62 of 1893 for £36
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(Sotheby's London, May 19, 1958, no.12, bought by Agnew for Lady Melchett)
date: 1958
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Lady Melchett [1928-], sold at Christie's, London
date: 1958-1971
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* Agnew purchased the painting for Lady Melchett from the Sotheby's sale for £1,300
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(Christie's London, November 9, 1971, no. 71, bought by Piccadilly Gallery)
date: 1971-?
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(Piccadilly Gallery, London, sold to Galleria Galatea)
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* The painting was purchase by the Piccadilly Gallery, London from Christie's for 5,000 gns
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(Galleria Galatea, Turin, sold to private collector, Milan)
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private collector, Milan
date: by 1981-?
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(Ben Elwes Fine Art, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: 2016-17
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2017-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Butlin, Martin. The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. vol. 1, p. 323.
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Gilchrist, Alexander, Anne Gilchrist, W. J. Linton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, Charles Edwin West, and Charles Henry Jeens. Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus": With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings. London, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Macmillan and Co., 1863.
page number: Reproduced: p. 204, no. 28, 1880; Reproduced: p. 210, no. 31
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Philadelphia Museum of Art. William Blake, 1757-1827; A Descriptive Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Works of William Blake Selected from Collections in the United States. Philadelphia, PA: The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1939.
page number: Reproduced: no. 155
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Blunt, Anthony. The Art of William Blake. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1959.
page number: Reproduced: p. 66
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Butlin, Martin. The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake. New Haven, CT: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1981.
page number: Mentioned: vol. I, p. 323; Reproduced: vol II, plate 488
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Wieseman, Marjorie E and Korkow, Cory. “Acquisition Highlights: European Painting and Sculpture, 1500-1800.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 58. no. 2 (March/April 2018): 21-22.
page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 22.
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Arendsee, M., and M. Steinman-Arendsee. "Take the CAN disability aesthetics tour, at the Cleveland Museum of art." CAN Journal (Winter 2019/20): 76-87.
page number: Reproduced & mentioned: p. 78
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Luckow, Almuth, and William Blake. Die Gottesbilder des William Blake: Kunst und Philosophie. Darmstadt : WBG Academic, 2021.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 220-221, Abb. 52
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