Lot 5
  • 5

Henry Holiday

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Henry Holiday
  • The Duet, Portraits of Alexandra, Daughter of Rev. G. Kitchin and Winifrid, Daughter of the Painter
  • signed and inscribed with the title on a label attached to the reverse
  • watercolour
  • 78 by 108cm., 31 by 42½in.

Provenance

Sotheby's, 25 November 2004, lot 328, where purchased by the present owner

Condition

Structure: The sheet appears sound. There is evidence of several tears along the right hand edge, one along the top right edge and two smaller ones on the far left edge. There is some damage and evidence of repair work in a small area on the taller figure's hair leading to her blouse. Otherwise the work is in good overall condition with fresh colour, clean and ready to hang. Frame: Held in a Rossetti style gold painted carved wood frame behind glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

Reverend Dr George William Kitchin (1827-1912) was the first Chancellor of the University of Durham and Dean of Winchester. He had studied at Oxford and was friends with both Ruskin and Lewis Carroll and was probably also a friend of Holiday and owned his large watercolour Artemis, Queen and Huntress, Chaste and Fair (sold in these rooms, 15 July 2008, lot 2). His daughter Alexandra (later Mrs Arthur Cardew 1864-1912), who was named after her god-mother Alexandra of Denmark (then Duchess of Wales), was also the subject of at least five photographs by Carroll aged between four and sixteen.