King Lear
Datec. 1788
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions27 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches (69.85 × 52.07 cm)
Credit LineFounders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
Object number77.58
ClassificationsPaintings
Curator NotesLear, his right arm raised, holding his cloak, raves in the storm with Fool crouching at right, Kent between them. Gloucester and son, Edgar, enter from the left.
On View
On viewLocations
- Exhibition Demo Museum (Hanover Square), Level 4, American Art, Gallery 1
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of:
William Beckford, Bath, by 1838; his daughter Euphemia, wife of the tenth Duke ofHamilton; the twelfth Duke of Hamilton.
Hamilton Palace sale, Christies, London, June 17-July 20, 1882, lot 1068.
H. Graves and Co. (dealers), London.
Thomas B. Walker, Minneapolis, 1909.
Harry W. Peterson, 1937.
Frank Gunter, Champaign, Illinois, 1977.
Acquired in 1977.
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