William Henry Hunt, A Sleeping Boy, dated and exibited 1836

A Sleeping Boy

Private collection

Watercolor and bodycolor with scratching out

8 1/4 X13 3/4 in., 21 X 35 cm

Signed, l.r., W. HUNT, and indistinctly dated.

 

Provenance:

Spring 1836, Society of Painters in Water-colours, No. 99 (P) 17 gns. by Lady Rolle;

Descendants or heirs of Lady Rolle (S) Sotheby's Bearne, Torquay, England, 23 July 1980, Lot 262 (P) £700;

c. 1988, with a dealer in Broadway, England;

(S) Sotheby's, London, 14 July 1988, Lot 200 (P) £3,000*;

(S) Bonhams, London, 22 March 2016, Lot 22 (P) £1,625, $2,339.

 

Exhibited:

Spring 1836, London, The Society of Painters in Water-colours, No. 99 (A Sleeping Boy).

Done