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ARTHUR HUGHES | Study for Home from Sea

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September 20, 04:25 PM GMT

Estimate

800 - 1,200 GBP

Lot Details

Description

ARTHUR HUGHES

London 1832 - 1915

Study for Home from Sea

Watercolour, heightened with bodycolour

225 by 321 mm (drawing)

357 by 445 mm (mount)

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M. Postle, 'Home from Sea: The Preliminary Landscape Study' Apollo, vol. 136, no. 368, February 1992, p. 251-255;

J. Treuherz, 'Review of Arthur Hughes, His Life and Works, A catalogue raisonné by Leonard Roberts' The Burlington Magazine, vol. 141, no. 1154, May 1999, p. 296

This finely finished watercolour dates to 1856 and is the most complete surviving preliminary study for Arthur Hughes’s important early painting: Home from Sea, a work that he painted between 1856 and 1862, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1863 and which is now housed at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The watercolour depicts the parish church of All Saints at Chingford in Essex. Painted on the spot and in meticulous detail, the work illustrates Hughes’s early adherence to the techniques of Pre-Raphaelitism.