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ARTHUR HUGHES (BRITISH, 1830-1915)

Lot 23
13.12.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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£ 151 200
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 878485
Lot 23 | ARTHUR HUGHES (BRITISH, 1830-1915)
Estimate value
£ 70 000 – 100 000
ARTHUR HUGHES (BRITISH, 1830-1915)

Uncertainty

signed and dated 'ARTHUR HUGHES. 1878.' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed '**certainty-/Arthur Hughes/Wandle Bank/Wallington/Surrey' (on a partial label attached to the backboard)

oil on canvas

39 x 26 in. (99.1 x 66.1 cm.)





Provenance

Purchased from the artist by an unknown patron, April 1878.

Sylvester Zefferini Poli (1859-1937), and by descent to his granddaughter.

Miss Poli; Applebrook Auctions, Brookfield, Connecticut, 22 September 2005, lot 120.

with Christopher Wood, London, from whom purchased by the present owner.



Literature

Academy Notes, 25 May 1878, p. 470.

The Times, 31 May 1878, p. 4.

Art Journal, London, 1878, pp. 176-7.

E. Chesneau, La Peinture anglaise, Paris, 1882, p. 201.

C.E. Clement & L. Hutton (eds), Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works, Boston, 1884, p. 372.

G.H. Shepherd, A Short History of the British School of Painting, London, 1881, p. 148.

E. Chesneau, 'Peintures Anglais Contemporains', L'Art, Paris, 1894, p. 399.

L. Roberts, Arthur Hughes: His Life and Works, Woodbridge, 1997, pp. 188-9, 285, no. 157.



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1878, no. 602.
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