This delightful oil on canvas was composed by the great Regency painter Edmund Blair Leighton. Like many of Leighton's genre scenes, Till Death Us Do Part is a humorous portrayal of male-female interaction. Walking down the aisle of their wedding ceremony, a beautiful young woman in period dress links arms with her new husband, a gentleman several years her senior. The artist exhibited this work at the Royal Academy in 1879, and when he first sent it to the Academy, he gave it the incisively sarcastic title "L.S.D." standing for the Latin phrase "librae, solidi, denarii." The phrase translates to "pounds, shillings, pence," suggesting the woman is marrying for money rather than affection.

This painting once belonged in the collection of Malcolm Forbes, one of the most prolific fine and decorative art collectors of the 20th century. All told, his collection filled six residences across three continents and was internationally renowned for its importance and eclectic nature. At one point, Forbes owned more of the famed Fabergé eggs than were in the country of Russia He had a particular inclination towards Victorian narrative painters, including the great Edmund Leighton.

Leighton first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1878, beginning a period of over four decades in which he was represented by over sixty artworks at the Royal Academy's summer annuals. Like many of Heatherley's most famous students, who include Edward Burne Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Sir Frederic Leighton, Leighton was a figure painter first and foremost who specialized in historical scenes. Enjoying medieval subjects, he also frequently painted scenes set in Britain's Regency era, such as the present canvas.