Study of a pink mophead hydrangea
Study of a pink mophead hydrangea
Still-life study of a Pink HydrangeaSigned lower right: W. HUNTWatercolour over pencil, heightened with scratching out and gum arabic24.6 by 25.4 cm., 9 ¾ by 10 in.Hunt exhibited a watercolour of a Hydrangea at the O.W.S. in 1831 (no. 403). As the art critic Frederick Stephens described him, Hunt was 'the man who painted flowers as they had never been painted before in England or elsewhere and as (except by M. Fantin only) they have never been painted since' (F.G. Stephens, 'Portfolio, p.10).){kind=link}
William Henry Hunt O.W.S. (1790-1864)
Still-life study of a Pink Hydrangea
Signed lower right: W. HUNT
Watercolour over pencil, heightened with scratching out and gum arabic
24.6 by 25.4 cm., 9 ¾ by 10 in.
Hunt exhibited a watercolour of a Hydrangea at the O.W.S. in 1831 (no. 403). As the art critic Frederick Stephens described him, Hunt was 'the man who painted flowers as they had never been painted before in England or elsewhere and as (except by M. Fantin only) they have never been painted since' (F.G. Stephens, 'Portfolio, p.10).