EMMA SOYER
31 1/4 x 45 in.
Provenance
The artist’s posthumous sale, Christie’s, London, 5 March 1859, lot 121, £36;
David Hart, Park House, Leytonstone;
His posthumous sale, Christie’s, London, 11 March 1870, lot 96, 19 gns., 19 s. to ‘Flack’;
Michael Moore, Maybank, Beckenham;
His posthumous sale, Christie’s, London, 26 January 1901, lot 44, 5 gns. to ‘Cohen’;
Private Collection, USA, and thence by descent to the previous owner;
By whom acquired to Christie’s Private Sale;
Where acquired, 2024.
Exhibitions
The British Institution, London, 1838, no. 357.
Soyer’s Philanthropic Gallery, London, 1848, no. 108.
Literature
F. Volant and J.R. Warren (eds.) Memoirs of Alexis Soyer; with unpublished receipts and odds and ends of gastronomy, London, 1859, p. 141, no. 108;
Liverpool Echo, 10 January 1859, p. 6;
A. Graves, Exhibitors at the British Institution, London, 1875, p. 506;
G. Ramsden, The Artist Wife of a Celebrity Chef, MA Thesis, University of Buckingham, 2020, p. 73.