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Thomas Hovenden (1840-1895) STUDY OF A YOUNG WOMAN SEEN IN THREE QUARTER PROFILE FROM BEHIND<b...

Currency:EUR Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR
Thomas Hovenden (1840-1895) STUDY OF A YOUNG WOMAN SEEN IN THREE QUARTER PROFILE FROM BEHIND<b...
Thomas Hovenden (1840-1895)
STUDY OF A YOUNG WOMAN SEEN IN THREE QUARTER PROFILE FROM BEHIND
signed lower left
oil on canvas
56 by 46cm., 22 by 18in.
Born in Dunmanway, Co. Cork, Hovenden was orphaned at the age of six and thus
reared in a local orphanage. At 14 years of age he was apprenticed to a Cork
frame-maker by the name of Tolerton, for whom, according to Strickland, "he
served seven years and afterwards worked as a journeyman". His artistic training
began at the School of Art in Cork and was furthered from 1863 to c.1875 at the
prestigious National Academy of Design in New York. By 1875 he had left America
in preference for France, settling in the flourishing artist’s community at Pont
Avon, Brittany. Whilst his work was omitted from the seminal Irish
Impressionists exhibition of 1984, Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin have
sumised that he probably spent time in contact with Aloysius O’Kelly and
Augustus Nicholas Burke (Ireland’s Painters 1600-1940, p.260). His work may be
found in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
See Strickland, Vol. I, p. 528.
€4,000-€6,000 (£2,600-£3,900 sterling approx.)
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