Michael Scott's Wooing

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Henry Treffry Dunn (1838-1899), after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Michael Scott's Wooing
with inscription by William Michael Rossetti 'Michael Scott's Wooing/Appears to be copied by/Dunn' (on the reverse)
pencil, squared for transfer, on buff paper
32¼ x 30 in. (81.9 x 76.2 cm.); and two studies of leaves and angels' wings by the same hand, also inscribed on the reverse by W.M. Rossetti (3)

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Lot Essay

Dunn was born in Truro, Cornwall, and studied at Heatherley's Art School in London. He was Dante Gabriel Rossetti's studio assistant for twenty years during which time he produced a number of replicas of Rossetti's work.

This drawing is copied from Rossetti's red chalk composition Michael Scott's Wooing, dated 1866, now in the William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow.

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