'Thy Music, faintly falling, dies away, Thy dear eyes dream that Love will live for aye'

Signed with initials and dated 'JMS.1893' (on a cartouche, lower left).

Provenance

Bought from the artist by William Imrie of Holmstead, Mossley Hill, Liverpool; (+) Christie's, London, 28 June 1907, lot 142 (160 gns. to Gooden and Fox).
Mrs K. Brebner; Sotheby's Belgravia, 20 November 1973, lot 50 .
Sir Tim Rice.
Private collection, Belgium, circa 1980.
with Guy Loudmer, Paris, June 1987.
P.C. Withers, by whom bequeathed to the present owner.

Literature

Athenaeum, no. 3419, 6 May 1893, p. 576.
C. Wood, Dictionary of Victorian Painters, Woodbridge, 1995, p. 171, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, New Gallery, 1893, no. 106.
London, Maas Gallery, British Pictures, 2000, no. 56.