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160 146 Thomas Hovenden (1840-1895) STUDY OF A YOUNGWOMAN SEEN IN THREE QUARTER PROFILE FROM BEHIND oil on canvas signed lower left 22 by 18in. (55.9 by 45.7cm) Frame: 27.5 by 24in. (70 by 61cm.) Condition: Painting is in overall good stable condition. Minor surface dirt visible. Provenance: Whyte’s, 18 February 2003, lot 75; Whence purchased by the previous owner; Whyte’s, 4 March 2013, lot 85; Whence purchased by the present owner 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 served worked as a journeyman.” His artistic training began at the School of Art in Cork, where he was an acclaimed early student of James Brenan, 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 Pon Avon, Brittany. Whilst his work was omitted from the seminal Irish Impressionism exhibition of 1984, Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin have surmised 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. For further reading see: A. G. Terhune, P. Smith Scanlan, Thomas Hovenden; His Life and Art (2006)” €800-€1,200 (£720-£1,080 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot146