Lot 1726
WILLIAM HENRY HUNT (1790-1864)
A SPORTSMAN WITH A BOY, A PONY AND A DOG
Signed and dated 1827 in ink, watercolour and pencil with scratching out, lightly squared for transfer
44 x 54cm.
Provenance: London, Sotheby's London, April 10th 1997, lot 114; Christie's, November 9th 1993, lot 34; Sothebys, March 14th 1985, lot 62 (a copy of that catalogue accompanies this lot); Private collection
Compare: Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, `Sporting Gentleman in a High Straw Hat Cleaning His Gun`, 29 x 20cm approx, is also squared and may be a preparatory sketch for this subject
Exhibited: A painting of the same date as the present lot entitled 'A sportsman' was exhibited at London, Society of Painters in Water-Colours, 1827, no.248, (London)
