purchased from the artist by Francis McCracken on November 24, 1851 for 100 guineas; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Exhibition history
Royal Academy, 1851 (no.594); Liverpool Academy, 1851; Liverpool, 1969 (no.19)
Credit line
Purchased by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1887.
Inscriptions
Signature, date and location bottom left:
W. HOLMAN HUNT 1851. Kent
Notes
Models: James Lennox Hannay sat for the figure of Valentine. James Aspinal sat for the figure of Proteus.
Elizabeth Siddal sat for the figure of Sylvia.
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Captions
William Holman Hunt, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Valentine Rescuing Sylvia From Proteus, 1850 or 1851