Live Auction 21954British and European Art
ARTHUR HUGHES (BRITISH, 1830-1915)
Lot 27

ARTHUR HUGHES (BRITISH, 1830-1915)

Head of a girl

Closed13 July 2023

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GBP 2,520

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ARTHUR HUGHES (BRITISH, 1830-1915)
Head of a girl
signed and inscribed 'To Newton Benett. from Arthur Hughes' (lower left)
sanguine chalk on paper
14 3/8 x 10 5/8 in. (36.4 x 27 cm.)

Newton Bennett.
with The Maas Gallery, London, 1981-2, where purchased by
R. Douglas Franklin, from whom purchased by
Alan B. Gateley, on behalf of
Leonard Roberts, from whom purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

Newton Bennet (1854-1914) was collaterally descended from Sir Isaac Newton and devoted himself to art from the age of seventeen, specialising in landscape paintings in both oil and watercolour. He was a friend of Alfred Fripp, Alfred Hunt and Alfred Hughes among other artists and worked in various locations around the British Isles including the New Forest.
The present drawing may be a study for the head of the left hand figure in Hughes' 1892 R.A. exhibit Viola d'Amore (whereabouts unknown).