Live Auction 14233Victorian Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art
Henry James Holiday (1839-1927)
Lot 7

Henry James Holiday (1839-1927)

Study of a seated draped female figure

Closed13 December 2017

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GBP 1,625

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Henry James Holiday (1839-1927)
Study of a seated draped female figure
black and white chalk on buff paper, lightly squared
18 5/8 x 10 ¼ in. (47.3 x 16 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s Belgravia, 25 September 1979, lot 141.
with Chris Beetles, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

Holiday entered the Royal Academy schools at the age of fifteen, where he absorbed the elements of Pre-Raphaelitism and became friends with Albert Moore, Simeon Solomon, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris. He went on to become the chief designer for the stained-glass manufacturers James Powell & Sons, in succession to Burne-Jones. The present drawing clearly shows the influence of Frederic, Lord Leighton in its delicate exploration of drapery.