After the Engagement

from the sources

• After the Engagement is an oil on canvas painting measuring 45 x 31 1/8 inches and signed at lower left. daheshmuseum.org

  “After the Engagement Oil on canvas, 45 x 31 1/8 in. Signed lower left: Elizabeth Gardner”

• The painting was commissioned by the American businessman Obed J. Wilson and is based on a poem by Robert Burns. daheshmuseum.org

  “Commissioned by American businessman Obed J. Wilson, the paintings are based on a poem by the Scottish writer Robert Burns.”

• After the Engagement is the pendant to Before the Engagement and shows the couple years later in a humble interior marked by their tenderness and affection. daheshmuseum.org

  “In its pendant, After the Engagement , years have passed, and the humble, dim interior is nevertheless radiant with their mature tenderness and affection.”

• Gardner first mentioned the Engagement commission in a December 1880 letter to her brother John. daheshmuseum.org

  “Gardner first mentioned The Engagement commission in December 1880 in a letter to her brother, John.”

• The paintings stayed together in the Wilson collection, which was donated to a Cincinnati senior living facility in 1908, before the Dahesh Museum of Art purchased them. daheshmuseum.org

  “The paintings remained together as part of the Wilson collection donated to the Twin Towers Senior Living Facility in Cincinnati in 1908 before being purchased by the Dahesh Museum of Art.”