![]() ![]() ![]() From that time, Scott, his wife, and Alice Boyd together divided their time between extended summer and Christmas stays in Scotland with Alice, and at the Scott's London home in Cheyne Walk, (Rossetti also moved to Cheyne Walk in October 1862). ![]() Already married to Letitia Norquoy, Scott met Alice Boyd (1824-1897) in 1859 and quickly formed a close attachment to the unconventional and unmarried laird of Penkill Castle in Ayrshire. Executed on the 20th December 1862 at the home of William Bell Scott in Newcastle upon Tyne, where Rossetti was staying for the Christmas holiday, following the death of his wife Elizabeth Siddal on 11th February that year. Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1998) 237. References:Virginia Surtees, Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti,268. Exhibited: Royal Academy of Arts, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painter and poet, 13 January to 11 March 1973, 243. Clayton-Stamm thence by descent to the present owner. 1862 to lower left, sheet size 254 x 178 mm (10 x 7 ins), framed and glazed, with remains of label for the Rossetti exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, 1973, and photocopy of the catalogue raisonné entry for this work from Virginia Surtees, Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, to verso Provenance: Alice Boyd, Penkill Castle Evelyn M. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Alice Boyd, December 20, 1862, pencil on paper, signed DGR and dated 20 Decr. ![]()
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