Charles Hunt, Antique Oil Painting ‘The love letter’
£1,800
An amusing painting by Charles Hunt Jr. (British, 1829-1900) showing two old men reading a love letter in a cottage interior, one wearing a crumpled hat and seated in a comb-back Windsor chair, signed and inscribed ‘C. Hunt, 60 Barclay Road, Fulham’ (on envelope lower left)
Oil on canvas. Presented in the original gilt frame
Height 27.5 cm (10.75 inches) excluding frame
Width 33 cm (13 inches) excluding frame
English. mid 19th century
Interestingly, Charles Hunt portrayed the same character in his paintings The Song of The Shirt and Donkey Sellers (here illustrated)
