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'The Raising of Lazarus' by Frederick James Shields (1883-1911), a pencil and watercolour cartoon fo

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'The Raising of Lazarus' by Frederick James Shields (1883-1911), a pencil and watercolour cartoon fo
'The Raising of Lazarus' by Frederick James Shields (1883-1911), a pencil and watercolour cartoon for a stained glass window, heightened with white and lightly squared, showing the central figure of Jesus flanked by an astonished gathering, above the resurrected Lazarus with the apostles Judas, St. John and St. Thomas at his side, 274.5 x 142.3cm, in large oak frame and glazed
Provenance: James Skirrow Edmondson and thence by family descent to the present owner
This is the cartoon for the south aisle window in St Laurence's Church, Mereworth, in Kent, which Shields designed for Heaton, Butler and Bayne in May 1889, shortly before embarking on his last masterpiece, the murals in he Chapel of the Assension, Bayswater (see Ernestine Mills (ed.), Life and Letters of Frederick Shields, 1912, p. 299). The figure of the apostle in the lower right corner suggests the influence of Shields' close friend Ford Maddox Brown.
In 1880 Shields had painted a picture of Lazarus in D G Rossetti's studio, focussing on the figure of the resuscitated man and giving him a different pose (Mills, op. cit*., repro. Facing p. 262). This was purchased by his patron Mrs Russell Gurney, and eventually hung in the Chapel of the Ascension, which she financed
£3,000-4,000