Arthur Hughes (1832–1915)

Arthur Hughes (1832–1915)
Portrait of Lucy Hill (1864-1946), full-length, standing in an interior
Signed ARTHUR HUGHES (lower left) and inscribed and dated Lucy Hill Oct 1888 (upper right)
Oil on canvas laid on panel
38.6 x 22.7cm; 15¼ x 9in

Together with Lucy Crump (née Hill), The House of the Five Poplars (Blackieand Son,London,1911) (2)

Provenance:
Lucy Hill (1864-1946), later Lucy Crump;
Gifted by her to Mary Manson (daughter of James Bolivar Manson), September 1938;
By descent to the previous owner;
Sotheby's, London, Victorian and Edwardian Pictures, 25 November 2004, lot 326

Lucy Hill and her family were lifelong friends of Arthur Hughes. He also painted her and her siblings in 1866, a work now in the Bruce Castle Museum, London.