The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon

The meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba by Edward J. Poynter, R.A., Thomas McLean Gallery, London, 1890–1890

Unknown, Walker Gallery 1900, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1900–1900

Victorian Olympians, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Jun 1975–20 Jul 1975

Victorian Olympians, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 12 Aug 1975–14 Sep 1975

Victorian Olympians, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 Sep 1975–26 Oct 1975

Orientalism - Delacroix to Klee, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Dec 1997–22 Feb 1998

Pre-Raphaelites and Olympians. Selected works of Victorian art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Apr 2001–09 Sep 2001

Love and death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 Mar 2002–12 May 2002

Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023

Unknown, Mansion House (Guildhall) one-picture exhibition by living artists in 1900, Mansion House, , 1900?–1900?

Sir Walter Armstrong, The meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba by Edward J. Poynter, RA, London, 1890. Reprinted Sydney, 1892 and partially reprinted in the Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue 1906.

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1998, 'Exhibitions', Sydney, 1998, col illus p 22.

Malcolm Bell, Drawings of Sir E J Poynter, Bart, PRA, London, [1905], p 10. Studies illus pls 22, 38.

Kenneth Bendiner, An introduction to Victorian painting, New Haven, 1985, illus p 77.

Roger Benjamin, Ursula Prunster, Lynne Thornton and Mounira Khemir, Orientalism – Delacroix to Klee, Sydney, 1997-1998, pp 18, 42–43, 90–93, no 34, col illus p 91.

Roger Benjamin, Look, 'The Romance of Arabia – Orientalsim – Delacroix to Klee', Heidelberg, Dec 1997, pp 14–17: p 16.

Richard Beresford, Victorian visions: nineteenth century art from the John Schaeffer collection, Sydney, 2010, p 15.

Richard Beresford, Pre-Raphaelites and Olympians, selected works of Victorian art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 2001, pp 5, 46–47, col illus pp 47 (detail), 50.

Paschal Daantos Berry, The Sydney Modern Project. Transforming the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Our house is open', Sydney, 2022, pp 226–37: pp 227–28.

R B, Archaeological Diggings, ‘Seeing the Queen of Sheba in Australia’, Hornsby, Aug 2002, p 20, col illus p 20.

John E Branch, Picture study in schools: records of the Education Society, Sydney, 1913, pp 31, 47–49, illus p 48.

one of his models (from the Pall Mall Budget)’, Sydney Morning Herald, ‘About Mr Poynter’s great picture, Sydney, 06 Aug 1892, p 5.

Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Jan Meek (Editors), Portrait of a Gallery, 'European art in the old courts', Sydney, 1984, p 16, col illus p 17.

Edmund Capon, Great philanthropists on trial : the art of the bequest, ‘The James Fairfax collection', Melbourne, 2006, pp 126–35: p 134.

Nicholas Chambers, The Sydney Modern Project. Transforming the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Between here and there: collecting and displaying modern and contemporary international art', Sydney, 2022, pp 142–57: p 143, col illus pp 144–45 (in situ).

Patricia Crawford, History and legend in some selected paintings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1980, p 2, illus p 2.

A.J. Daplyn, Landscape painting from nature in Australia: a manual for the student in oil and water colours, Sydney, 1902, p 33.

A.J. Daplyn, Landscape painting from nature in Australia: a manual for the student in oil and water colours, Sydney, 1902, p 33.

Jackie de Diana, Look, ‘Realism to surrealism: the Society’s art appreciation lecture series for 2014', Sydney, Nov 2013, pp 28–29: p 28.

Paula Dredge and Alan Lloyd, Paintings conservation in Australia from the nineteenth century to the present: connecting the past to the future: contributions to the eleventh AICCM paintings group symposium, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2008, ‘The sub-committee and the restorer: conservation at the National Art Gallery of NSW 1899–1910’, Canberra, 2008, pp 25–37: pp 26, 29–30, illus pp 34, 35. Detail from a photograph of 1900.

Caroline Dunant, Melodrama: stage, picture, screen, ‘Olympian dreamscapes: the photographic canvas: the wide-screen paintings of Leighton, Poynter and Alma-Tadema’, London, 1994, p 87, illus p 86.

Donato Esposito, British Museum Magazine, 'Inspired by Antiquity: Sir Edward Poynter and the British Museum', London, Spring 2002, pp 22–25: pp 24–25, col illus p 25.

Michele Field, Sydney Morning Herald, ‘London toasts Sheba, but she’s a Sydney girl’, Sydney, 13 Aug 2005, p 5, illus p 5. Gallery shot.

Cedric Flower, Bulletin, ‘Art: Victorians in NSW’, Sydney, 19 May 1972, pp 38–39, illus p 39 (detail).

Renée Free and Peter Laverty, Victorian Olympians, Sydney, 1975, pp 25–26, no 30, col illus on cover.

Renée Free, AGNSW Collections, 'The Western Heritage, Renaissance to Twentieth Century', Sydney, 1994, p 133, col illus p 133.

Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'European', Sydney, 1988, pp 43–44, col illus pp 46–47.

Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, pp 156–57, illus p 156.

Renée Free and Rose Peel, Dreams and realities, Sydney, 1993, p 2.

Renée Free, Art and Australia, 'European collection', Sydney, Jul 1972, pp 63, 67, col illus p 70. Art Gallery of New South Wales special number.

Anne Gérard-Austin, Look, 'A visit from a legend', Sydney, Dec 2021-Jan 2022, pp 50–51: p 51, col illus p 51.

Michael Goodman, The story of St Stephen’s church South Dulwich: a beacon in times of peace and war, London, 2007.

Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, London, 1905-1906, vol 6, 1906, p 198.

Algernon Graves, A century of loan exhibitions, 1813–1912, London, 1913-1915, vol 2, 1913, p 958.

Doug Hall, Brought to Light: Australian Art 1850–1965 from the Queensland Art Gallery collection, 'Learning from the First Lesson: George Folingsby and Genre Painting. G.F. Folingsby The first lesson', Brisbane, 1998, pp 22–25: p 22.

Lars Hildingson, Horisont: historia, religion, samhalle, geografi, 1, Lärobok i samhällsorienterande ämnen för högstadiet, Stockholm, 1989, col illus p 187.

Dr Colin Hope, Gold and civilisation, 'King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba', Canberra, 2001, p 114, col illus p 114.

Robert Hughes, Nation, ‘Grandad’s gallery: some plain words from Mr Missingham’, Sydney, 19 Dec 1959, pp 19–20: p 20.

Alison Inglis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ‘Poynter, Sir Edward John, first baronet (1836–1919)’, Oxford, 2004.

Alison Inglis, The dictionary of art, ‘Poynter, Sir Edward John’, London, 1996, vol 25, p 406, illus p 407.

Alison Inglis, Melbourne Art Journal, ‘The Margaret Manion lecture 2001: “The Queen of the South” archaeology and empire in Edward J Poynter’s The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon’, Melbourne, 2001, pp 25–39.

F Hamilton Jackson, Architectural Review, ‘The Work of Sir E J Poynter, PRA, viewed mainly from its decorative side’, London, 1897, pp 2–13, 51–63, 118–30, 155–66, 224–31: part 4, p 164.

Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Western Collection: Paintings and Sculpture', Sydney, 1999, p 45, col illus p 45.

Richard Jenkyns, Dignity and decadence: Victorian art and the classical inheritance, London, 1991, illus p 334.

Joan Kerr, A singular voice: essays on Australian art and architecture, Sydney, 2009, p 176.

Shi Genobu Kimura, Shuji Takashina and Koichi Kabayama, Time through painting: 17th century II, Journey into the Masterpieces, Tokyo, Dec 1993, p 101, no 5–6, col illus p 101.

Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, p 147, no 1785.

Clem Lloyd and Peter Sekuless, Australia’s national collections, North Ryde, 1980, p 250.

Tony Magnusson, Look, 'Dancing on the edge', Sydney, Mar 2020-Apr 2020, pp 38–42: p 40, col illus p 38 (in situ).

May L Manning, Magazine of Art, 'Art in Australia', London, 1895, pp 215–19: p 218.

Adrian Margaux, Windsor Magazine, ‘The Art of Sir Edward Poynter, RA’, London, Jan 1903, pp 67–82: pp 80–82, illus p 75.

Harry Mayfield, Solomon's legacy: a history of Israel from the death of King Solomon to the return from exile, Melbourne, 1993, col illus on the cover.

John McDonald, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'How the west was won over', Sydney, 20 Dec 1997, illus p 12. Appearing in the 'Spectrum' section of Sydney Morning Herald.

Cosmo Monkhouse, Easter Art Annual for 1897, ‘Sir Edward J Poynter, President of the Royal Academy: his life and work', London, 1897, pp 2, 23, 32, illus p 21. Preparatory drawings illus pp 1, 3. Extra number of the Art Journal.

Cosmo Monkhouse, British contemporary artists, London, 1899, p 257.

William Moore, Studio, ‘The public art galleries of Australia’, London, Apr 1913, pp 202–13: p 210.

Richard Muhlberger, The Bible in Art, New York, 1991, p 139, col illus pp 140–41.

Musée d'art et d'historie du Judaïsme, Les Juifs Dans L'Orientalisme, 'La bible est née en orient', Paris, 2012, col illus p 116. Illustrated in reference to cat.nos. 59 and 60.

Chiara O'Reilly, Journal of the history of collections, vol 32, no 2, 'Collecting French art in the late 1800s at the Art Gallery of New South Wales', Jul 2020, pp 313–25: p 318.

Kineton Parkes, Igdrasil, ‘A note on the pictures of 1890’, London, 1890, pp 283–86: p 284.

Thomas Pinney (Editor), The letters of Rudyard Kipling, vol 1, 1872-89, London, 1990, pp 369–70.

Elizabeth Prettejohn, J W Waterhouse: the modern pre-Raphaelite, The Netherlands, 2008-2010, p 108.

Peter Raissis, Look, 'Rehanging the Old Courts', Heidelberg, Mar 1997, p 9.

Peter Raissis, The Sydney Modern Project. Transforming the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Past and present: the place of historical European art in Sydney', Sydney, 2022, pp 126–39: p 132, col illus p 132.

Peter Raissis, Prints & drawings Europe 1500-1900, Sydney, 2014, col illus p 168.

Marikit Santiago, Look, 'The art that made me', Sydney, Feb 2021-Mar 2021, pp 21–23: p 23, col illus p 23.

Malgorzata Sawicki, AICCM Bulletin, ‘The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon by Edward Poynter, 1884–1890 – The frame revisited’, Canberra, 2000, p 22, illus p 23.

Margaret Sawicki, ‘The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Salomon by Edward Poynter, 1884–1890. The frame revisited’, AICCM Bulletin, vol 25, Dec 2000, pp 21–32.

John Saxby (Editor), Look, 'Tours', Sydney, Mar 2016, col illus p 43.

Matthias Schulz, Der Spiegel, ‘Zauberin im Garten Eden’, Hamburg, 14 Apr 2001, pp 188–201: col illus pp 188–89 and on cover.

Wendy Sharpe, Look, 'The art that made me', Sydney, Dec 2015-Jan 2016, pp 12–13: p 13, col illus p 13.

Herbert Sharp, Studio, ‘A short account of the work of Edward John Poynter’, London, Feb 1896, pp 3–15: pp 13–15.

St John Simpson (Editor), Queen of Sheba: treasures from ancient Yemen, London, 2002, pp 14, 23–26.

[M H Spielmann], Magazine of Art, ‘Edward J. Poynter, PRA’, London, 1897, pp 111–20: p 120.

F.G. Stephens, Artists at Home, London, 1884, p 81. The accompanying illustration shows Poynter in his studio with the watercolour version of the Queen of Sheba on an easel.

A.G. Temple, The art of painting in the Queen’s reign, being a glance at some of the painters and paintings of the British school during the last sixty years, London, 1897, p 189.

A.G. Temple, Catalogue of the loan collection of pictures by living British painters, London, 1900, pp 27–28, no 28.

Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Leipzig, 1907-1949, vol 27, p 332.

Angus Trumble (Curator), Love and Death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Adelaide, 2001-2002, p 166, col illus pp 157 (detail), 167. The illustration on page 157 is a detail.

Markku Valkonen and Pekka Niemelä, Vaelluksia maisemaan. Taiteen mestarit meren äärellä [Expeditions to the seascape. Art masters by the sea], Helsinki, 2017, col illus p 37.

Joan Webb, Eccleston Du Faur: man of vision, Berowra, 2004, p 49.

Steven Weitzman, Cantor Arts Center Journal, 'Receiving the Queen of Sheba', Stanford, 2010-2011, col illus p 38.

Keith White, The art of faith: the story of the Bible through the eyes of great artists, Hampshire, 1997, pp 34, 95, col illus p 35.

Keith White, The art of faith: the story of the Bible through the eyes of great artists, Hampshire, 1997, pp 34, 95, col illus p 35.

National Art Gallery of New South Wales (report of the trustees for the year 1899), Sydney, 1900, p 1. Loan to Guildhall ‘for their Summer exhibition… of the works of leading British artists’.

Times, ‘Art in Liverpool: the autumn exhibition’, London, 18 Sep 1900, p 10.

Daily Telegraph, 'Pictures for the country', Sydney, 03 Aug 1895, p 9.

Art Journal, ‘New art publications’, London, May 1894, p 159, illus p159.

Sydney Morning Herald, ‘National Art Gallery – Third loan interchange’, Sydney, 24 Apr 1896, p 6.

National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 38, no 38, illus p 19.

Connoisseur, ‘Current art notes: Sir Edward John Poynter, PRA, 1836–1919 [obituary]’, London, Sep 1919, pp 52–53: p 52.

Daily Telegraph, ‘Pictures for the country’, Sydney, 03 Aug 1895, p 9.

Times, ‘Bequest of pictures to the nation: the late Lady Tate's selection’, London, 17 Jan 1920, p 13.

National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 26, no 58.

New South Wales Art Gallery Pictures, Sydney, 1931, np, illus.

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Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, col illus p 36.

Bulletin, 'Society', Sydney, 01 Jun 1895, p 15.

Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Mr Villiers on local art’, Sydney, 25 May 1895, p 6.

Daily Telegraph, ‘The National Gallery: five new pictures’, Sydney, 27 Oct 1894, p 5.

Olympian dreamers, an exhibition of Victorian classical paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints, to celebrate the publication of Christopher Wood’s ‘Olympian Dreamers’ by Constable in October 1983, London, 1983, under no 15.

Sydney Morning Herald, 'The new loan exhibition', Sydney, 01 Sep 1894, p 5.

English 19th century pre-Raphaelite and academic drawings, watercolours, graphics and paintings, New York, 1986, np, under no 68. Catalogue entry on photogravure.

Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report for the year ended 30th June 1989, Sydney, 1989, p 15. Acquisition of related drawings.

Sydney Morning Herald, 'The Art Gallery', Sydney, 14 Sep 1893, p 3.

Magazine of Art, ‘Art in June – The Chronicle of Art’, London, 1890, p xxxiv.

Victorian drawings and watercolours, London, 29 Oct 1991, p 14, no 8.

Daily Telegraph, 'That picture', Sydney, 17 Mar 1893, p 6.

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Daily Telegraph, 'That picture again', Sydney, 07 Mar 1893, p 6.

Fine Victorian pictures, drawings and watercolours, London, Mar 1993, p 31, under no 42.

Daily Telegraph, 'That picture', Sydney, 03 Mar 1893, p 3.

Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1997, Sydney, 1997, p 36. Conservation treatment.

Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Great art seen in a poor light’, Sydney, 17 Apr 1998, p 12.

Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1999, Sydney, 1999, p 21.

Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Mr Poynter's new picture [letter]’, Sydney, 24 Nov 1892, p 8.

The collection of Giorgio Marsan and Umberta Nasi, London, 13 Dec 2007, p 179, no 530.

Sydney Morning Herald, ‘The Solomon and Sheba picture’, Sydney, 12 Nov 1892, p 7.

Times, London, 28 May 1890-27 Jun 1891. McLean’s Gallery advertisements.

Athenaeum, ‘The Royal Academy (second notice)’, London, 16 May 1891, pp 641–43: p 643. Concerning reduced ‘much improved’ version.

Saturday Review, ‘Two exhibitions’, London, 21 Jun 1890, pp 768–69.

Athenaeum, ‘The Royal Academy (first notice)’, London, 03 May 1890, p 571.

Athenaeum, 'Minor exhibitions', London, 31 May 1890, pp 710–11.

Times, ‘Mr Poynter’s “The Queen of Sheba”’, London, 17 May 1890, p 17.

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Thirtieth autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and watercolours, Liverpool, 1900, pp 57–59, no 900.

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Pall Mall Gazette “Extra”, ‘The pictures of 1901’, London, May 1901, illus on cover. Photograph of the artist standing in front of the picture (in a temporary frame), the oil sketch standing on the ground in front.