Sorrow, 1889

  • William Holman Hunt, English, 1827-1910

Oil on wood panel

  • Unframed: 19 1/4 × 14 1/4 inches (48.9 × 36.2 cm)
  • 29 7/8 × 25 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (75.9 × 64.8 × 6.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

78.58

On View

  • British, Level 3, South

Department

European Modern Art to 1970

George Lillie Craik

William Alwyn

November 14, 1960, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) lot 109

Museo de Arte de Ponce (Puerto Rico)

Shepherd Galleries (New York, New York, USA)

1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Hunt, W.H. Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. London, 1905, vol. 2, p. 368 (ill.). Hunt Exhibition. Exh. cat., Manchester City Art Gallery. Manchester, 1906, no. 48. Gissing, A.C. William Holman Hunt. London, 1936, p. 202. Held, J. European and American Paintings of the Museo de Arte. Puerto Rico, 1965, p. 84. English Nineteenth Century Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings. Exh. cat., Shepherd Gallery. New York, 1978, no. 33 (ill.).

William Holman Hunt, Sorrow, 1889, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 78.58.