Portrait of a Young Boy
William Henry Hunt
(English, 1790–1864)
about 1830
Medium/TechniqueTransparent and opaque watercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet: 11 × 9 cm (4 5/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
Framed: 28.6 × 26.7 × 3.2 cm (11 1/4 × 10 1/2 × 1 1/4 in.)
Framed: 28.6 × 26.7 × 3.2 cm (11 1/4 × 10 1/2 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit LineJoseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund for Drawings
Accession number2022.1328
On View
Not on viewClassificationsWatercolors
Provenance1974, Sabin Galleries, Ltd., London [see note 1]. By 1982, Cyril Fry (b. 1917 – d. 2010) and Shirley Fry (d. 2021), The Fry Gallery, London; sold by The Fry Gallery to a private collection [see note 2]; 2021, sold from this private collection by Harry Moore-Gwyn British Art, London, to Lowell Libson and Jonny Yarker, London; 2022, sold by Lowell Libson and Jonny Yarker, London, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 22, 2022)NOTES:
[1] B. N., “Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions,” Burlington Magazine 116, no. 854 (May 1974): 280, fig. 54. [2] Published as in their collection by John Witt, William Henry Hunt (1790–1864) (London, 1982), cat. no. 374, p. 177. The drawing was subsequently exhibited and sold on behalf of an anonymous private collection in British Romantic Art: Paintings and Works on Paper From a Private Collection (Harry Moore-Gwyn British Art, London, October 14-28, 2021), cat. no. 7, where it is said to have been acquired from The Fry Gallery.
