Old Master & British Works on Paper
Old Master & British Works on Paper
Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry
William Henry Hunt
'The Orphan': A woman bottle feeding a pig
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Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry
William Henry Hunt
London 1790 - 1864
'The Orphan': A woman bottle feeding a pig
Watercolour and bodycolour over pencil;
signed lower left: W Hunt
297 by 335 mm
Cyril and Shirley Fry, by 1982
J. Witt, William Henry Hunt, Life and Work, with a Catalogue, London 1982, p. 178, no. 388, pl. 69
London, Old Watercolour Society, 1848, no. 112;
London, The Fry Gallery, Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection of Mr and Mrs Cyril Fry, 1967 and 1981, no. 3;
London, Sotheby's, Brighton, Brighton Musuem and Art Gallery & Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Animals in Art, A celebration of animals through the eyes of artists from Stubbs to Hockney, 1997;
London, Courtauld Institute of Art, William Henry Hunt: Country People, 2017, no. 20
London, The Fry Gallery, Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection of Mr and Mrs Cyril Fry, 1967 and 1981, no. 3;
London, Sotheby's, Brighton, Brighton Musuem and Art Gallery & Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Animals in Art, A celebration of animals through the eyes of artists from Stubbs to Hockney, 1997;
London, Courtauld Institute of Art, William Henry Hunt: Country People, 2017, no. 20
In this charming work Hunt's wife, Sarah (1812-1860), plays the part of the young farmhand. The pair married in 1830 and she regularly appeared in her husband's watercolours.
The exquisite rendering of the interior of the barn in the present work allows one to fully appreciate Hunt's extremely sophisticated watercolour technique.