Signed and dated, lower left: William M Egley 1857
Talking Oak, 1857
- William Maw Egley, English, 1826-1916
Oil on canvas
- Unframed: 29 3/4 × 24 3/4 inches (75.6 × 62.9 cm)
- 39 5/8 × 34 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (100.6 × 87.6 × 6.4 cm)
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
78.11
On View
- British S3AA
Department
European Painting
Details
the artist, WIlliam Maw Egley (Westbourne-Grove, England)
by 1969, E. & A. Silverman Galleries (New York, New York, USA)
February 12, 1969, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) lot 49
purchased by (J.S. Maas & Co., London, England)
1978, Roy Miles Fine Paintings (London, England)
1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
The Works of British Artists. Exh. cat., British Institution. London, 1857, no 499, p. 20. [sold for £40.] The Victorian Era. Exh. cat., London, 1977. Art and Antiques Weekly, Oct. 22, 1977, (cover ill.). Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 56, no. 5 (1978): pp. 275, 317 (fig. 34). Wood, C. The Pre-Raphaelites. New York, 1981, pp. 65-67 (ill.). Casteras, S.P. "William Maw Egley's The Talking Oak." Bulletin of the DIA 65, no. 4 (1990): pp. 26-39 (fig. 1) (ill.). Wissman, F.W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2000, pp. 29-30 (ill.).
William Maw Egley, Talking Oak, 1857, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 78.11.