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William Henry Hunt, A Girl Standing near the Seashore, dated 1836
A Girl Standing near the Seashore
London, Tate Britain , No. N01971
Watercolor and bodycolor with scratching out
39.4 X 27.9 cm.
Provenance:
Charles Fraser, by whom given to the Tate in 1905.
Although this watercolor is dated, the last digit of the year is hard to discern. It is said to be 1838 by Tate Britain. The basis for the dating by the museum seems to also be based on an assumption that the model for the watercolor is Emma Hunt, the artist's daughter, who was born in 1832, and a belief that the girl depicted is about 6 years old. Not only does the girl appear to be more than 6 years old, she does not really resemble Emma Hunt. Emma's hair was darker. The girl does look very much like the older of the two girl models who appeared in Hunt's watercolors, The Sisters, at the Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California; Juvenile Palmistry in a private collection; and The Rustic Toilet, also privately held. That model had the same auburn color hair and facial features similar to those of the girl here. She looks to be about the same age in this watercolor as she does in The Sisters, and she has obviously aged a few years by the time the other two watercolors were painted in late 1838 or early 1839 - both were exhibited in the Spring 1839 exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water-colors.
William Henry Hunt, A Girl Standing near the Seashore, dated 1836
A Girl Standing near the Seashore
London, Tate Britain , No. N01971
Watercolor and bodycolor with scratching out
39.4 X 27.9 cm.
Provenance:
Charles Fraser, by whom given to the Tate in 1905.
Although this watercolor is dated, the last digit of the year is hard to discern. It is said to be 1838 by Tate Britain. The basis for the dating by the museum seems to also be based on an assumption that the model for the watercolor is Emma Hunt, the artist's daughter, who was born in 1832, and a belief that the girl depicted is about 6 years old. Not only does the girl appear to be more than 6 years old, she does not really resemble Emma Hunt. Emma's hair was darker. The girl does look very much like the older of the two girl models who appeared in Hunt's watercolors, The Sisters, at the Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California; Juvenile Palmistry in a private collection; and The Rustic Toilet, also privately held. That model had the same auburn color hair and facial features similar to those of the girl here. She looks to be about the same age in this watercolor as she does in The Sisters, and she has obviously aged a few years by the time the other two watercolors were painted in late 1838 or early 1839 - both were exhibited in the Spring 1839 exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water-colors.