JOHN RODDAM SPENCER STANHOPE (BRITISH, 1829-1908)

JOHN RODDAM SPENCER STANHOPE (BRITISH, 1829-1908)
Patience on a monument smiling at Grief
signed and inscribed ' "Patience on a Monument/Smiling at Grief"/R. Spencer Stanhope/Villa Nuti. Bellosguardo Florence/£250' (on an exhibition label attached to the reverse of the panel) and with inscription ' "Patience on a Monument/Smiling at Grief" - by Roddam S' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on panel
50 x 42 ¾ in. (127 x 118.6 cm.)

Provenance
Joseph Dixon (†); Christie's, London, 18 March 1911, lot 35 (105 gns to Stirling).
Mrs A.W. Stirling, until her death in 1965.
The De Morgan Foundation; Christie’s, London, 28 November 2001, lot 7.
Possibly, with Nevill Keating, London, 2004, from whom purchased by the present owner