拍品專文
Gladys Millais Holman Hunt, the artist's only daughter, and the elder of the two children from his marriage to Edith Waugh, was born in Jersusalem on 20 September 1876. This is one of a series of four drawings executed circa 1881, and subsequently used as a basis for Hunt's 1882 Grosvenor Gallery exhibit Miss Flamborough (private collection; illustrated in William Holman Hunt, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 2nd ed., 1913, vol. II, p. 277). The wide-eyed gaze and angle of the head in the portrait sketch is very close to that adopted in Miss Flamborough, which was named after a character in Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield.
We are grateful to Dr Judith Bronkhurst for her help in preparing this catalogue entry. The drawing is to be included in her forthcoming catalogue raisonn of the work of Holman Hunt (Yale University Press).
We are grateful to Dr Judith Bronkhurst for her help in preparing this catalogue entry. The drawing is to be included in her forthcoming catalogue raisonn of the work of Holman Hunt (Yale University Press).