Pencil Sketch on Paper by William Henry Hunt, ca. 1830
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Item: Framed Sketch
Artist: William Henry Hunt (London, England March 28, 1790 – February 10, 1864)
Medium: Pencil on Paper
Age: ca. 1830
Dimensions: 5 1/2" W x 4 1/2" T (13" x 12 1/2" with frame)
Condition: Excellent. Paper has some browning at the edges. Frame has some minor chips to the paint and the paper backing is torn on 3 out of 4 sides. Please see photos.
Details: A small but fascinating pencil sketch by the known English artist, William Henry Hunt. It has been securely matted and framed and the backing paper to the frame includes a handwritten provenance of the piece. It reads, "Pencil drawing by William Hunt (signed). Bought Jan 22, 1929 from J.S. Billingham Walthing(?) Sr., Tourester, England from the collection of the Earl of Effingham, a fair guarantee of its authenticity."
About the Artist: William Henry Hunt was an English watercolorist who has been referred to as one of the key figures in nineteenth-century English watercolor painting. In 1806 Hunt persuaded his father to allow him to train as an artist, becoming apprenticed for a term of seven years to the watercolorist John Varley and eventually attended the Royal Academy Schools. In 1826 he was elected a member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours (later the Royal Watercolour Society) and was a prolific exhibitor at the society's annual exhibitions, contributing a total of 765 works in all during his lifetime. Hunt died of apoplexy on 10 February 1864.