The Theodore Watts-Dunton Folding Press Bed: Paolo and Francesca da Rimini
Henry Treffry Dunn (Truro 1838 - 1899)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1896 - circa 1898
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
685 x 445 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1288301.5
Summary
Oil painting on panel (lower tier), Paolo and Francesca da Rimini by Henry Treffry Dunn (Truro 1838 - 1899), circa 1896-98. Based on the 1867 watercolour (Surtees No. 75 R.. 2, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne), the third of three versions of the subject. The subject is from Dante's Inferno, Canto V: Francesca and her lover, her brother-in-law Paolo Malatesta, are murdered by her husband Sigismondo Malatesta. Rossetti finished translating Dante's Vita Nuova in 1848, and Dante's life and works were an important source of subjects for his pictures
Provenance
Theodore Watts-Dunton; Clara Watts-Dunton; Sotheby 22 March 1939: sale of the contents of No. 2 The Pines, purchased by FrankTilley; sold by him to Geoffrey Mander April 1939 for £4;transferred to the National Trust on the death of Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (1882-1962)
Makers and roles
Henry Treffry Dunn (Truro 1838 - 1899), artist Thomas Keynes, woodcarver