Study of the Crescent Moon in "The Ship"

Provenance

The artist, to 1910; by descent to his second wife, Edith Holman Hunt (née Waugh; 1846–1931); by descent to her daughter, Mrs. Michael Joseph (née Gladys Millais Mulock Holman Hunt; 1876–1951); by descent to her adopted daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Burt; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Oct. 10, 1985, lot 54, to J. S. Maas & Co., London; sold to Nicolette Wernick, Massachusetts and Connecticut, June 17, 1987 [according to Bronkhurst 2006]; sold, Christie’s, London, June 16, 2010, lot 43. Lowell Libson Ltd., London. Matthew Rutenberg (1956–2019), New York, to 2019. Sold by Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.