Pigs by a stream

Details

William Huggins (1820-1884)
Pigs by a stream
signed and dated '1878./W Huggins.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
30 7/8 x 37 1/8 in. (78.4 x 94.3 cm.)

Provenance

with Arthur Ackermann and Peter Johnson Ltd., London, by October 2002.

Special notice

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Sale room notice

Please note that this picture descended in a private collection until March 2006, from where it was lent to the Ackerman and Johnson exhibition of the artist's work, held in 2002. It then entered another private collection, from where it is being sold.

Lot Essay

The Liverpool-born painter William Huggins specialised in animal subjects. From the tigers and lions he studied at the city's menagerie, to rustic subjects such as the present lot, his work is remarkable for its naturalism and for the sensitive way in which the transparent colour glazes are manipulated over a white ground.

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