William Henry Hunt, Devotion, Probably Exhibited 1850

Supplication

Private collection

Watercolor and bodycolor with scratching out

14 1/2 X 10 in., 38 X 25 cm.

Signed, l.r., W. Hunt

 

Provenance:

Blackburn England, Richard Haworth (dealer);

George McCullock (S) 1913;

W. H. Lever, the First Lord Leverhulm,; by whom donated to the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, England;

The Lady Lever Art Gallery (S) Christie's, London, 6 June 1958, Lot 61. [along with A Girl Seated Sewing] (P) £18 18s., Patoural;

Perhaps the late J. N. Hart (S) Sotheby's London, 9 Dec 1964, Lot 45 [Devotion, signed, 14 X 9 in.] (P) £20, $56 Leger;

(S) Sotheby's London, 30 Nov 2000, Lot 350 (as Devotion) (P) Bought In but sold after auction for £1,500 to Chris Beetles;

With Chris Beetles, Ltd. (London dealer), 2003, from whom purchased by the present owner in 2003.

 

Exhibited:

2003, London, Chris Beetles, Ltd., Summer Show, No. 5

Done