Helena and Count Bertram before the King of France [graphic] / Francis Wheatley.

1793.

1 painting : oil on canvas ; 30 or 31 x 21 3/4 in. (78.5 x 56 cm)

canvas

Title from Pressly.

Mary Webster, "Frances Wheatley," London, 1970, no. 101; Friedman 1976, pp. 178 and 242, repr. pl. 97.
Engravings: Luigi Schiavonetti, published 1 September 1797, for 1802 Boydell edition of Shakespeare's plays, facing p. 35 of All's Well That End's Well, 11 3/16 x 6 3/4 in. (border of image and margin)

Provenance: Commissioned by Alderman John Boydell for the Shakespeare Gallery for 20 guineas; sold by lottery 28 January 1805 and won by William Tassie; sold by Christie 18 May 1805, no. 9, as "The King, Helena and Lords," bought by a Mr. Salteri for 5 guineas (£5.5.0)

G. Michelmore & Co., Rare Books, Autographs, Manuscripts, 5 Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, London SW1, July 1923, £125 (£250 for this painting and a work by Cattermole)

Exhibited: London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, "A Catalogue of Small PIctures Painted for the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall," (bound with the 1796 edition of the catalogue of the large paintings, but the number sequence begins again at "1"), 1796, no. 43; London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, "A Catlogue of the Pictures &c. in the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall" and "A Catalogue of Small Pictures Painted for the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall" (only one number sequence for both large and small paintings), 1802, no. 109; London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, "The Exhibition of the Shakspeare Galley, Pall-Mall," (last time paintings were shown together; preparatory to their sale), 1805, no. 36; a photograph of the painting was included in the exhibition "Francis Wheatley RA," 1747-1801, held at the Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, 15-25 June, and Leeds, City Art Gallery, 8 July-8 August 1965, no. 104, as "The King, Helena and Lords"; Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board, "Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century English Painting," 1976-1977, no. 24; 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb.15, 1994; Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, "Beyond Home Remedy," 2011.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2007. Marketing Shakespeare.

Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 87 (Plate 5)

Great Britain -- England.

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