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ARTHUR HUGHES (BRITISH, 1830-1915)
Summer is a coming in
signed 'A Hughes Esq' (on the artist's label attached to the reverse) and further signed and inscribed '"Summer is a coming in"/Arthur Hughes' (on the artist's label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
321⁄4 x 521⁄4 in. (81.9 x 132.7 cm.)
Provenance
The artist, sold for 60 gns in May 1884, to
John Hamilton Trist; Christie's, London, 9 April 1892, lot 71 as 'As You Like It' (16 gns to Leggatt).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 November 1969, lot 141.
with Stone Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Belgravia, 5 November 1974, lot 123, where purchased by the previous owner.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 December 2019, lot 139, sold after the sale to the present owner.Literature
Athenaeum, 20 May 1882, p. 641.
John Hamilton Trist, Catalogue of Pictures & Drawings, At 22 Vernon Terrace and 11 Compton Terrace, October 1876 to [? 15 December 1886], MS, Tate Gallery Archives, no. 134.
E. Chesneau, La Peinture anglaise, Paris, 1882, p. 201.
E. Chesneau, 'Peintures Anglais Contemporains', L'Art, Paris, 1894, p. 399.
M. Bennett, Artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Circle: The First Generation, London, 1988, p. 61.
L. Roberts, Arthur Hughes His Life and Works, Woodbridge, 1997, pp. 102, 194, no. 177, illustrated col. pl. 80.Exhibited
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Summer Exhibition, 1882, no. 167.
Brighton, Royal Pavilion Gallery, Exhibition of Modern Pictures in Oil, Autumn 1883, no. 407.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Stone Gallery, Some Works from Stock, Spring 1970, no. 24.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Stone Gallery, Some Pre-Raphaelite Works, Summer 1971, no. 47.
Cardiff, National Museum of Wales; London, Leighton House, Arthur Hughes Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 5 - 23 December 1971, no. 30.Special notice
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.