Lot 291
WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT O.M. (BRITISH 1827-1910)
PORTRAIT OF FANNY HUNT
The Forbes Collection at Old Battersea House
Auction: 1 November 2011 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Signed with monogram and dated 1866, coloured chalk and wash on paper laid down on canvas
Dimensions
71cm x 53cm (28in x 30in)
Footnote
Note: Judith Bronkhurst suggests that the fact that Hunt chose to exhibit the present work in his 1906-07 retrospective exhibitions, rather than the full-face chalk portrait executed in 1866, demonstrates its poignancy and personal significance for him as the last representation of his beloved first wife.
Provenance:
The artist in 1907
Anon. sale: Christie's, London, 28th November 1990, lot 15.
Exhibited:
Collected Works of W. Holman Hunt, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1906, No. 80.
Collected Works of W. Holman Hunt, Leicester Galleries, London, 1906, No. 45.
Literature:
Judith Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, June 2006, vol. II, cat. no. D426, p. 128, reproduced in colour.