signed 'W. HUNT' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour on paper
15 5/8 x 11 in.
The Mr Moore referred to in the title of the present watercolour is probably the father of one of Hunt's pupils, a Miss Moore who lived in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. A drawing of her in her bedroom by Hunt, dated 1839, which shows the same style windows, is in the collection of the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; see J. Witt, William Henry Hunt (1790-1864) Life and Work, with a Catalogue, London, 1982, p. 72 and pl. 79.
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