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William Henry Hunt, Blowing Bubbles, dated 1835
A Boy Blowing Bubbles
Private collection
Watercolor, bodycolor, and gum arabic with scratching out
10.8 X 6.7 in., 27.5 X 17 cm.
Signed and dated, l.r., W. HUNT 1835
Provenance:
Probably, the late Mrs. C. A. Champness, Cirenchester, England (S) Christie's, London, 2 Nov 1956, Lot 124 (Blowing Bubbles,1835, 10.75 X 6.75 in.) (P) £6 6s. Leger [London dealer];
(S) Sotheby's London, 19 March 2003, Lot 151 (P) £9,000 $14,113 by the present owner.
A lithograph after this watercolor by Hunt is one of those included in the 1844 volume entitled Hunt's Comic Sketches, yet this image is no more humorous than any number of Hunt's figure paintings with adults as subjects. In fact anecdotal paintings such as this are more akin to paintings of children created a hundred years later by artists such as Norman Rockwell, although the American typically painted compositions with multiple figures while Hunt almost never did.
William Henry Hunt, Blowing Bubbles, dated 1835
A Boy Blowing Bubbles
Private collection
Watercolor, bodycolor, and gum arabic with scratching out
10.8 X 6.7 in., 27.5 X 17 cm.
Signed and dated, l.r., W. HUNT 1835
Provenance:
Probably, the late Mrs. C. A. Champness, Cirenchester, England (S) Christie's, London, 2 Nov 1956, Lot 124 (Blowing Bubbles,1835, 10.75 X 6.75 in.) (P) £6 6s. Leger [London dealer];
(S) Sotheby's London, 19 March 2003, Lot 151 (P) £9,000 $14,113 by the present owner.
A lithograph after this watercolor by Hunt is one of those included in the 1844 volume entitled Hunt's Comic Sketches, yet this image is no more humorous than any number of Hunt's figure paintings with adults as subjects. In fact anecdotal paintings such as this are more akin to paintings of children created a hundred years later by artists such as Norman Rockwell, although the American typically painted compositions with multiple figures while Hunt almost never did.