Private collection USA
The Head of the Principal Missionary: The Study for ‘A Converted British Family’
- Pencil on pale blue paper
- 7 × 6 inches · 178 × 152 mm
- Initialled: ‘W.H.H’
Drawn c.1849
Collections
- Edith Holman Hunt (1846-1931), wife of the artist;
- John Holman Tupper, gift of the above, 9th October 1925;
- Harold J. Daly, acquired in 1970;
- Christie’s, 18 November 1980, lot 69;
- Christopher Gibbs, acquired at the above;
- Private collection, acquired from the above;
- Gorringe’s, Lewes, 11 March 2025, lot 53;
- Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd.
Exhibitions
- Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Collective Exhibition of the Works of W. Holman Hunt, 1907, no.102;
- Glasgow, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Exhibition of Pictures and Drawings by W. Holman Hunt, 1907, no.54;
- London, National Gallery, Millbank, Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of the 1860 Period, 1923, no.141.
Literature
- William Holman Hunt, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, London and New York, 1905, vol.I, p.195, repr;
- O.J.W. von Schleinitz, William Holman Hunt (Künstler-Monographien vol. LXXXVIII), Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1907, plate 18, p.23;
- Judith Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 2006. Vol.II, cat. no.D43, p.26.