WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT, O.M., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1827-1910)

Lot 86
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Lot 86 | WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT, O.M., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1827-1910)
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WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT, O.M., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1827-1910)

Piazza della Constituzione, Athens, by Night

signed with monogram and dated '92' (lower left), signed again and inscribed 'Piazza della Constituzione, by night/Athens W Holman Hunt' and with inscription '18 Melbury Rd W' (on the backboard) and with further inscription by another hand 'Athens,/the Square./by W Holman-Hunt/in 1893.' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)

watercolour heightened with white, on paper pasted on to millboard, varnished

14 1/8 x 20 in. (35.7 x 50.8 cm.)





Provenance

The artist, and by descent to his granddaughter Mrs Elisabeth Burt, until 1993.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 27 November 2003, lot 318, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

Athenaeum, no. 3417, 22 April 1893, pp. 511, 513.

Illustrated London News, CII, no. 2818, 22 April 1893, p. 492.

C. Monkhouse, Academy, XLIII, no. 1096, 6 May 1893, p. 401.

O. J. von Schleinitz, William Holman Hunt, (Künstler-Monographien, no. LXXXVIII), Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1907, p. 127, repr. p. 125, pl. 124.

W. Holman Hunt, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 2nd ed., 1913, II, illustrated p. 314 (as The Square, Athens).

J. Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, 2006, volume II, pp. 192-93, 311, no. D389, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, Summer Exhibition, 1893, no. 186.

Birmingham, Royal Society of Artists, Autumn Exhibition, 1893, no. 881 (as The Grand Square before the King's Palace, Athens).

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Autumn Exhibition, 1895, no. 1094 (as The Grand Piazza at Athens, with the two bronze statues known as 'The Runners', of the Time of Pericles).

London, Royal Society of British Artists, One Hundred & Eighteenth Exhibition, 1902-3, no. 272 (as Piazza della Constituzione, Athens, by night).

London, Leighton House, The First Exhibition of Works by Artists resident in Kensington, 1906, no. 21.

London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of the Collected Works of W. Holman Hunt, O.M., D.C.L., 1906, no. 66.

Manchester, City Art Gallery, The Collected Works of W. Holman Hunt, O.M., D.C.L., 1906-7, no. 36.

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Collective Exhibition of the Art of W. Holman Hunt, O.M., D.C.L., 1907, no. 32.

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, and London, Victoria and Albert Museum, William Holman Hunt, 1969, no. 252, illustrated in cat. pl. 88, lent by Mrs Elisabeth Burt.



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