Focus on this artwork and explore the Ownership and exhibitions.
The painting was first commissioned by Francis McCracken but the commission was dropped because of lack of progress on the painting. Next James Leathart, then William Graham commissioned the work. Graham only took possession of the unfinished work after Rossetti's death. Graham's estate sold the work in 1886, presumably to Frederick Richards Leyland and it was sold again at Leyland's estate sale, held at Christie's on 28 May 1892.Samuel Bancroft, a textile mill owner from Wilmington, Delaware, bought the painting at the estate sale. 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.  Found is considered the most important picture in Bancroft's extensive collection and was prominently displayed above Bancroft's desk in his home. The Bancroft estate donated the collection in 1935 to the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington.The painting was exhibited in London in 1883, at Rossetti's memorial exhibition, and again in 1892. Following the 1883 exhibition at the Royal Academy, Lewis Carroll noted that the farmer's face showed a combination "of pain and pity, condemnation and love, which is one of the most marvellous things I have ever seen done in painting."While Bancroft's house in Wilmington was being expanded to hold his new paintings in 1892, Found was exhibited in nearby Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in New York at the Century Club.
It has also been exhibited in London and Birmingham (1973), New Haven (1976), Richmond, Virginia (1982), and in London, Liverpool, Moscow (2013) and Amsterdam (2003).
Amsterdam Samuel Bancroft Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Lewis Carroll Birmingham Delaware Art Museum Philadelphia Royal Academy Frederick Richards Leyland Liverpool Richmond, Virginia Christie's New Haven William Graham Century Club Wilmington, Delaware