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

Rising mist, Loch Maree, Highlands

Details

Alfred William Hunt, R.W.S. (1830-1896)
Rising mist, Loch Maree, Highlands
signed and dated 'A W Hunt 1876' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and with scratching out on paper
13 x 20¾ in. (33 x 52.7 cm.)

Provenance

with Chris Beetles, London.
The Fuller Collection; Christie's, London, 7 April 2000, lot 34.

Exhibited

London, Old Water-Colour Society, Summer 1874, no. 252.
New Haven, Conneticut, Yale Center for British Art; Cleveland, Museum of Art; and Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery, Victorian Landscape Watercolours, September 1992-April 1993, exhibition catalogue p. 143, no. 79, illustrated in colour.

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Lot Essay

In the summer of 1873 Hunt stayed with John Ruskin at Brantwood on Lake Coniston. From there he made an excursion to Scotland. Hunt exhibited another watercolour of Loch Maree, lifting of the mists at sunset at the Old Water-Colour Society, Summer 1877, no. 17, probably the one, dated 1876, included in the Humphrey Roberts sale in these Rooms, 21 May 1908. The present view of Loch Maree looks across to Beinn Slioch.

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