WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT O.M. (BRITISH 1827-1910)
PORTRAIT STUDY OF MISS ISABELLA WAUGH
The Forbes Collection at Old Battersea House
Auction: 1 November 2011 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Oil on canvas, inscribed on torn label on stretcher at a later date by Edith Holman Hunt: '[Fo]r Slubby with [lo]ve from Edith H[olman Hunt] Study of […] by W H[olman Hunt] made […] Campden […]'
Dimensions
55cm x 35cm (21.75in x 13.75in)
Footnote
Note:
Judith Bronkhurst has suggested that the facial resemblance between the sitter and Hunt's portraits of his mother-in-law, first and second wives and brother-in-law suggests that this is a likeness of a Waugh sister, probably Isabella, born in 1843. The mention of 'Campden' on the label on the stretcher may indicate that the work was painted between March and August 1866, when Hunt and his first wife were living at 1 Tor Villa, Campden Hill.
Provenance:
Given by Edith Holman Hunt to Sir John Macdonell, KCB ('Slubby' in inscription).
To his wife, Dame Agnes Macdonell, 1921.
To her daughter, Margaret Adler, 1925.
To her niece, Imogen Pilch, by 1957.
Christie's, London, 14 July 1972, lot 9.
Christie's, London, 5 March 1993, lot 102.
Lord Lloyd Webber Collection.
Literature:
Lynn Roberts, "Nineteenth Century English Picture Frames II: The Victorian High Renaissance," International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, vol. V, 1986, p. 275, reproduced in frame, p. 280, fig.4.
Judith Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, June 2006, vol. I, cat. no. 105, p. 206, reproduced in colour; vol. II, no. 20, p. 312.