Focus on Mnemosyne (Rossetti) and explore the Provenance and exhibitions.
Frederick Richards Leyland bought the painting from Rossetti in 1881. It hung in Leyland's drawing room with five other Rossetti paintings that Leyland called "stunners." The painting was sold at Leyland's estate sale, held at Christie's on 28 May 1892 to William Connal McLean and changed hands in two gallery sales in 1908.  It was purchased in 1916 by the estate of Samuel Bancroft who had acquired one of the largest collections of Pre-Raphaelite art outside of the United Kingdom.   The Bancroft estate donated its extensive collection of paintings in 1935 to the Delaware Art Museum.The painting was exhibited in London in 1883, Glasgow in 1893, and London in 1906.
It has also been exhibited in New Haven, Connecticut (1976) and Richmond, Virginia (1982)
Samuel Bancroft New Haven, Connecticut Delaware Art Museum Frederick Richards Leyland Glasgow Christie's Richmond, Virginia