Live Auction 15507British Art: Victorian, Pre Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art
Arthur Hughes (1832-1915)
Lot 166

Arthur Hughes (1832-1915)

Female head

Closed11 December 2018

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GBP 37,500

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Arthur Hughes (1832-1915)
Female head
signed with monogram and dated '1864' (lower right)
oil on canvas
10 x 8 1/8 in. (25.4 x 20.6 cm.)
in the original frame

George Rae (1817-1902), Redcourt, Birkenhead, by circa 1900, and by descent to his son,
Edward Rae (1847-1923) and his wife Margaret, née Leathart (1862-1936), and by descent to their son,
Charles Edward Leathart Rae (1883-1952), and by descent to his widow,
Mrs Muriel Rae (later Mrs Catto); and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Both George Rae and James Leathart were significant patrons of Arthur Hughes who painted two family portraits of Maria Leathart and her children; Mrs Leathart and her Three Children, 1863-5 (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle) and A Christmas Carol at Bracken Dene, 1878-9 (Private Collection). This sitter for this head study was probably the artist's wife, Tryphena Ford, and a comparable work of the same sitter wearing bluebells entwined around her wrist, In the Grass, circa 1864-5, is in the collection of Sheffield City Art Gallery.