Proserpine (fourth version)

This is what Surtees refers to as the fourth of the eight recorded versions of the painting (see Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 131 (no. 233).). It is the version that DGR sent in 1872 to Howell, whose criticism of the picture put a considerable strain on their friendship (see Fredeman, Correspondence, especially the letters of 22 October, 1 November, and 3 November 1872). The first two were deemed unsatisfactory by DGR, and destroyed.

• Fredeman, Correspondence, 72.100, 72.105, 72.106, 74.32, 74.34, 74.35.
• Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 174.
• Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 131 (no. 233).
• WMR, Family Letters , vol. 2, 265.