Focus on Lady Lilith and discuss the Display and exhibitions.
The painting hung in Leyland's drawing room with five other Rossetti paintings that Leyland called "stunners."Samuel Bancroft, a textile mill owner from Wilmington, Delaware, bought the painting at Leyland's estate sale, held at Christie's on 28 May 1892, for £525.  He bought at least four other Rossetti paintings at the same time and later accumulated one of the largest collections of Pre-Raphaelite art outside of the United Kingdom.  The Bancroft estate donated Bancroft's extensive collection of paintings in 1935 to the Delaware Art Museum.The painting was exhibited in London in 1883, and Philadelphia in 1892 while Bancroft's house was being expanded to hold his new paintings. 
It has also been exhibited in Richmond, Virginia (1982), Tokyo (1990), Birmingham and Williamstown (2000), and in London, Liverpool and Amsterdam (2003). In 2012 it was exhibited at the Tate Gallery in London, and from 17 February to 19 May 2013 it was on exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Samuel Bancroft National Gallery of Art Birmingham Delaware Art Museum Tate Tate Gallery Richmond, Virginia Christie's Williamstown Wilmington, Delaware