GEORGE RICHMOND, R.A. (BRITISH, 1809 - 1896)
The Agony in the Garden
inscribed to card on reverse ‘Copy of Raphael / December 11th 1875 / by Geo. Richmond R.A.’
bears label with transcription of original inscriptions to painting's case
oil on panel
25 x 28.5 cm. (9 7/8 x 11 1/4 in.)

Provenance
Given by the artist to Dr. John William Ogle (1824 - 1905) in 1882;
Anonymous sale, Bonham's, Chester, 05.03.2013, Lot 395;
Private collection, Southwest England

This subject, copied from Raphael's similarly-sized composition (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) was apparently given by the artist to his friend, Dr. John Ogle, in 1882. This information was incised upon a wooden box that once contained this picture (a presentation method which Richmond used on several occasions, with one example recently with John Robertson Fine Art), now lost, but recorded upon a modern handwritten label to the reverse. Presumably Richmond had access to the original when it was in the esteemed picture collection of `the richest heiress in England`, Angela Georgina Burdett, later Baroness BurdettCoutts (1817-1906). Richmond also painted his own version of this subject, with that painting now in the Yale Centre for British Art.