William Holman Hunt, R.S.W., O.M., D.C.L. (1827-1910)
William Holman Hunt, R.S.W., O.M., D.C.L. (1827-1910)

Portrait of the artist's daughter, Gladys, aged four

細節
William Holman Hunt, R.S.W., O.M., D.C.L. (1827-1910)
Portrait of the artist's daughter, Gladys, aged four
with inscription 'Gladys' by Edith Holman Hunt (lower right)
pen and brown ink
7 x 4 in. (17.8 x 11.5 cm.)
來源
Edith Holman Hunt, the artist's widow, and thence by descent to her daughter, Gladys Holman Hunt, 1931. Given to Charles Pollitt, Hunt's studio assistant; and thence by descent to his son S.A.F. Pollitt; Christie's London, 16 June 1970, part of lot 38 (75 gns. to Powney).

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).