Price on requestInscribed on reverse of mount: Wm Hunt
Black and white chalk on blue paper
17 by 25.4 cm., 6 ¾ by 10 in.
Price on requestSigned lower left: W. Hunt 1827
Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour and scratching out
38.2 by 27.2 cm., 15 by 10 ¾ in.
Provenance:
Bought by Sir John and Lady Witt, 1970;
Their sale, Sotheby’s, 19th February 1987, lot 147, illustrated on cover, sold £23,000 hammer;
Private Collection until 2019
Literature:
John Witt, William Henry Hunt (1790-1864) – Life and Work with a Catalogue, 1982, no.548
Exhibited:
Probably London, Society of Painters in Water-colour, 1829, no. 13 or no.214;
Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum, Preston Harris Museum and Art Gallery and Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, William Henry Hunt 1790-1864, 1981, no.101
Sold Signed and dated 1806
Black and white chalk on buff paper
14.9 by 22.7 cm., 5 ¾ by 8 ¾ in.
This was drawn when Hunt was only 16 and a pupil of John Varley
Sold inscribed on old label: Cottages/near St Albans/by/Wm Hy Hunt
watercolour heightened with bodycolour, gum arabic and scratching out
17.9 x 25.9cm., 7 x 10 inches
Provenance:
With Spink-Leger,
Exhibited:
This is an early work dating from between 1808 and 1820 when Hunt?s early patron Dr Thomas Monro took a cottage at Bushey, Hertfordshire where Hunt was a frequent visitor. He produced a number of similar drawings of cottages and farm buildings during this period. A view of St Albans Cathedral by Hunt is in the Victoria and Albert Museum and a view of a street in St Albans is in the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (see John Witt, William Henry Hunt, 1982, nos. 168 and 247).
Sold
Signed lower right: W. HUNT
pencil
9.1 by 12.6 cm., 3 1/2 by 5 inches
Sold
Signed lower right: W. HUNT
pencil
5.1 by 6.5 cm., 2 by 2 1/2 inches
Sold Indistinctly signed lower right
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour, gum arabic, stopping out and scratching out
26.2 by 28.2 cm., 10 1/2 by 11 inches
Hunt depicts an impressionable young woman who has been reading a book of omens and is consequently startled by a real or imaginary noise she has heard in a dark corner of the room. He often used members of his family as sitters and the present watercolour may show his daughter Emma, which would date it to circa 1845.
Sold Full length, seated
watercolour over pencil
32.3 by 20.4 cm., 12 ? by 8 inches
Provenance:
Julius Held (1905-2002)
Sold 
Sold Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour on laid paper
With a pencil study of an easel verso
13.7 by 11 cm., 5 ? x 4 ? inches
Provenance:
The artist?s daughter, Emma, Mrs Thomas Robinson;
Her son William Hunt Robinson;
His eldest daughter Maud Marie Ennis, n?e Robinson (1886-1963);
Her son Desmond Wilfred Ennis (d. 2000);
By descent until 2010
Sold watercolour heightened with bodycolour, gum arabic and scratching out
17.7 by 13.7cm., 6 3/4 by 51/4 inches
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Hunt often used members of his family as sitters and the present watercolour may show his daughter Emma, which would date it to circa 1845. He is often described as the link between the early watercolourists and the Victorian artists of the second half of the nineteenth century due to his use of strong colour and bodycolour
Provenance:
Private Collection until 2008
