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John Martin: The Celestial City and the River of Bliss  wikidata:Q30557635 reasonator:Q30557635
Artist
John Martin (1789–1854)  wikidata:Q937096
 
John Martin
Alternative names
John Martin I; John, I Martin; J. Martin; Martin; Jonathan Martin; John I. Martin; John Martin (painter)
Description English painter, engraver, illustrator, artist, graphic artist and etcher
Date of birth/death 19 July 1789 / 17 July 1789 Edit this at Wikidata 17 February 1854 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Haydon Bridge Edit this at Wikidata Category:Douglas
Work location
England; United Kingdom Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q937096
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Title
English: The Celestial City and the River of Bliss
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1841
date QS:P571,+1841-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 48.5 × 76.5 in (123.1 × 194.3 cm)
Object history

Purchased from the artist in 1841 by Benjamin Hick of Bolton; His sale, Manchester, February 1843, where acquired by John Clowes Grundy (1806–1867), together with Pandemonium, for 180 guineas, on behalf of George Whiteley;

George Whiteley (1825–1873), of Blackburn and Halifax;

By descent to his second son, Sir Herbert Huntington-Whiteley, 1st Bt.;

By descent to his son Captain Sir Maurice Huntington-Whiteley, 2nd Bt., R.N.;

By descent to his son, Sir Hugo Baldwin Huntington-Whiteley, 3rd Bt., Ripple Hall, Tewkesbury, until 1994;

With Peter Nahum, Leicester Galleries, London;

Forbes Magazine Collection, London;

Private Collection, USA (on loan to the J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky).
Exhibition history

London, Royal Academy, 1841, no. 428; Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, 1952 (on loan);

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Berlioz and the Romantic Imagination, 1969, no. 219, reproduced in catalogue;

London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, John Martin, Loan Exhibition, 1975, no. 17;

London, Tate Britain, Apocalypse, September 2011 – January 2012, cat. no. 96.
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J. Martin 1841
Source/Photographer http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/old-master-british-paintings-evening-sale-l15033/lot.57.html

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