Alfred William Hunt, R.W.S. (1830-1896)

Mist Wreaths, Scotland

Details

Alfred William Hunt, R.W.S. (1830-1896)
Mist Wreaths, Scotland
with inscription 'Mist Wreaths by Alfred W. Hunt/29½ x 19½/Exhibited at Royal Academy 1861/28/01' (on an old label on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
19¼ x 29¼ in. (48.9 x 74.2 cm.)

Provenance

R. Bright; Christie's London, 1 May 1880, lot 147 (71 gns. to Perman). Anon. sale, Christie's London, 13 March 1992, lot 99 (to the present owner).

Exhibited

probably London, Royal Academy, 1861, no. 625 as 'Welsh scene, A Runlet babbling down the Glen'.

Lot Essay

A watercolour by Hunt entitled Mist Wreaths was exhibited at the Old Water-Colour Society, Winter 1869-70, no. 361. The present picture can be compared with one of the same size in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, entitled A November Rainbow: Dodlwyddelan Valley, executed in 1866.

It has been suggested that the present picture depicts Glencoe.

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