Focus on A Sea-Spell and explain the History.
The painting was owned by Leyland, who may have acquired it from Rossetti, and was sold through Christie's in 1892. It was owned by T. F. Wigley, David Croal Thomson, and William Hulme, Viscount Leverhulme, who sold it in 1926 through Anderson Galleries of New York. Anderson Galleries sold it to another New York dealer, Scott & Fowles, from whom the lawyer and art collector Grenville L. Winthrop purchased it in 1935. Winthrop donated the work to the Fogg Art Museum of his alma mater, Harvard University, in 1939.A Sea-Spell was exhibited in a posthumous exhibition of Rossetti's work at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in London in 1883; in the National Gallery of South Australia, on loan from Wigley, in 1899; in a Rossetti-centered exhibition at the University of Kansas Museum of Art in 1958; at the National Museum of Western Art of Tokyo in 2002; and as part of many Fogg Art Museum and Harvard Art Museums exhibitions. It is currently on display on the second floor of the Harvard Art Museums.
T. F. Wigley alma mater Grenville L. Winthrop Harvard University National Gallery of South Australia William Hulme, Viscount Leverhulme New York Fogg Art Museum Christie's Burlington Fine Arts Club Anderson Galleries National Museum of Western Art Harvard Art Museums London Tokyo University of Kansas Museum of Art