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Christ at Emmaus & Jesus Betrayed

Artist: Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740 - 1812)

Location: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Date: 1798, 1797

Materials: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 1. 122.8 x 99.5 cms 2. 127.5 x 101.3 cm.

Grant:

Amount Paid: £2,500 (Total: £10,000)

Vendor: Diocese of Bath and Wells

Review number: 2980 (1983)

Provenance:
Parish of Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset and offered for sale by tender by the Diocese of Bath and Wells.

Description:
Two Paintings which were part of Macklin's ambitious project to illustrate the Bible to be published in sixty numbers which would eventually form three magnificent volumes. Both signed P.J.de Loutherbourg and dated.

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