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Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Susanna Anderson Rose

1862

Frederick Sandys

(British, 1829–1904)
England, 19th century
oil on wood
Framed: 54 x 47 x 4.5 cm (21 1/4 x 18 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 34.7 x 28 cm (13 11/16 x 11 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1979.81
Location: 220 19th Century European

Did You Know?

The Pre-Raphaelite movement revised elements of old art forms and this painting has all the qualities of a carefully executed Renaissance painting; decorative fabric, a window, and a coat of arms. Gallery 204, our Colonial American gallery, also has a portrait that includes these elements.

Description

This keenly perceptive portrait of Susanna Anderson Rose (1795–1870) was painted when the sitter was 67 years old. The fine network of lines on her face are meticulously observed as are her silver gray curls and pale blue eyes. Frederick Sandys’s ability to render detail is evident in the subject’s bonnet, elaborately trimmed with lace and azure ribbon, and the texture of her brown fur cloak.
  • The sitter, Mrs. Susanna Rose [1795-1870] London, England, by descent to her son, Col. Sir William Anderson Rose
    Col. Sir William Anderson Rose [1820-1881] London, England, by descent to his granddaughter, Adria Rose Oxley
    His granddaughter, Adria Rose Oxley of Kilravock Castle. Her husband, Lt. Col. M. S. Oxley. Their daughter, Valerie Oxley of Tidworth, Hampshire.
    Their daughter, Valerie Oxley of Tidworth, Hampshire. London sale, Christie's, 2 February 1979 (lot 82, repr.), Portrait of Mrs. Susanna Rose, aged 67 years, for £7,000.
    -1979
    (Fischer Fine Art, Ltd., London, United Kingdom, 1979, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1979-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • "The Royal Academy." The Art-Journal 2 (June 1, 1863): 105-116. Mentioned: P 110
    "Royal Academy 101st Exhibition." The Art-Journal 8 (July 1, 1869): 197-204. Mentioned: P. 202
    Gray, J. M. "Frederick Sandys." The Art-Journal 8 (1884): 73-78. Mentioned: 77-78
    Wood, Esther. A Consideration of the Art of Frederick Sandys. Westminster London, United Kingdom: Archibald Constable and Co, 1896. Reproduced: p. 47
    Bate, Percy H. "The Late Frederick Sandys: A Retrospect." The Studio 33 (October 1904): 3-17. Mentioned: P. 12
    Ross, Robert. "Frederick Sandys." In The Dictionary of National Biography. Weaver, J. R. H, and H. W. C Davis, eds., 263-265.London: Oxford University Press, 1920. Mentioned: Vol. 1, P. 264
    Chamberlain, Arthur B. "Works by Frederick Sandys in the Birmingham Art Gallery." Apollo: A Journal of the Arts 2 (November 1925): 258-263.. Mentioned:P. 269
    Crombie, Theodore. "Some Portraits by Frederick Sandys." Apollo: A Journal of the Arts 82 (November 1965): 398-400.. Mentioned: P. 400
    Maas, Jeremy. Victorian Painters. London, United Kingdom: Barrie & Rockliff, the Cresset P., 1969. Reproduced: p. 217
    O'Looney, Betty. Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904. Brighton, United Kingdom: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, 1974. Reproduced: p. 31
    Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art LXVII, no. 3 (March, 1980):58-99. Mentioned: p. 61, p. 97, no. 90; Reproduced: p. 75, no. 90
    Talbot, William S. "A Victorian Portrait by Frederick Sandys." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 10 (1980): 299-309. Reproduced: Cover, P. 299 www.jstor.org
    Fischer Fine Art Limited, London: 1972-1982. London, United Kingdom: Fischer Fine Art Limited, 1982. Reproduced: fig. 6
    Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: P. 213
    Elzea, Betty. "Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys." In The Dictionary of Art. J.S. Turner, ed., 726-727. New York: Grove, 1996. Mentioned: Vol. 27, P. 726
    D'Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Foud; European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Reproduced: p. 202
    Elzea, Betty.. Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné. Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom: Antique Collectors' Club in association with Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service, 2001. Mentioned: p. 164-165; Reproduced: color plate 14
    Elzea, Betty. A Singular Man: A Documented Life of the Artist Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904. London: Unicorn Press, 2023. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 68-69
  • Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).
    Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).
    Annual Exhibition. Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom (1863).
  • {{cite web|title=Susanna Anderson Rose|url=false|author=Frederick Sandys|year=1862|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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