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J. Becquet, Sculptor |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.284) | |
| Number: | 62 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 257 x 194 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Thames Set', 1871 | |
| No. of States: | 6 | |
| Known impressions: | 96 | |
| Catalogues: | K.52; M.52; T.54; W.48 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (96) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
23: The Athenaeum, 16 May 1863, p. 655.
24: London RA 1863 (cat. no. 990); London Pall Mall 1874 (cat. no. 21); Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 474).
). 25
Impressions also appeared in major public and international exhibitions. One was shown at the Glasgow International Exhibition, 1888, lent by Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924). 26 Others were shown in Cincinnati (1875), Glasgow (1879) and Philadelphia (1879 and 1902) and Buffalo (1901). 27 Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) lent one to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1900 (
or ). 28
Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent an impression to the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, the 1902 Philadelphia show, and to the Whistler Memorial show in Boston in 1904. 29
Print dealer's shows in New York also featured 'Becquet'; H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1898 included an early impression that was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
). 30 Another impression was shown at Wunderlich's in 1903, and one by Frederick Keppel & Co. in 1902.Finally impressions were shown in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, including two shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, one in the Boston Memorial in 1904 (as mentioned above), and one from the Royal Collection in London in 1905. 31
25: New York 1881 (cat. no. 69).
26: Glasgow 1888 (cat. no. 2552-16)
27: See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
28: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 46).
29: Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2221); Philadelphia 1902 ; Boston 1904 (cat. no. 42),
30: New York 1898 (cat. no. 45).
31: New York 1904a (cat. no. 50); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 48).
SALES & COLLECTORS
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Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an early impression formerly owned by Haden and William Drake (1817-1890) from F. Keppel & Co. in 1892 (). Other Haden impressions were sold through H. Wunderlich & Co. to Freer in 1898 (, ). Freer bought a later impression from Keppel's in 1892, which had come from the sale of the collection of Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) () and another in 1898 (). The latter was inscribed by Becquet himself.In April 1876 the collection of Philippe Burty (1830-1890) was exhibited by Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840- d.1892) in the print-shop of Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832) in Haymarket, London, prior to its auction. It included an early impression of J. Becquet, Sculptor (
). 33 Wedmore's review specifically mentions this drypoint:32: V&A Register of Prints, p. 32.
33: Sotheby's. 1 May 1876 (lot 925) bought by 'Heywood'.
34: F. Wedmore, 'M. Burty's collection', The Academy , 29 April 1876, pp. 414-415.
), and the British Museum in 1874 (). Constantine Alexander Ionides (1833-1900) bequeathed a set to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1901 (). The Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, bought a late impression from the Kunstsalon Ernst Arnold in Dresden in 1901 (). The Bibliothèque nationale de France bought one, probably from Keppel, in 1903 (); and 15 etchings including the portrait of Becquet were purchased by the Trustees of the Public Picture Gallery Fund for Birmingham City Art Gallery in 1904 ().); James Smith (1831-1923) (); and Guy John Fenton Knowles (1879-1959) (). At auction, an 'early proof on Japanese paper' from the collection of Arthur Thomas (dates unknown) was sold in 1873 to Colnaghi's for £2.17.0. 35 At the William Drake (1817-1890) sale in 1892 Keppel bought a 'trial impression, head only' for £1.4.0 (). 36 A year later, at Christie's, an impression originally owned by Frederick Richards Leyland (1832-1892) was sold on 24 February 1893 (lot 194) to the London print dealer Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), and another, from the collection of T. E. Crawhall of Condercum, Newcastle-on-Tyne, was bought, again by Keppel, on 14 March 1893 (lot 114) for only £0.18.0.35: Sotheby's, 23 June 1873 (lot 126).
36: Christie's, 8-9 March 1892 (lot 293).
); and probably the American print dealers Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), buying about 1875 (, , ) and George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) (). Other early American collectors included Henry F. Sewall (1816-1896) (); Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916), by 1900 (, ); Harry Brisbane Dick (1855-1916) (); Joseph Pennell (1860-1926) (); Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936) (); and Albert Henry Wiggin (1868-1951) ().