WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT
Old Mexico (Scene in Mexico, Three Horsemen in Foreground).
Oil on canvas, circa 1875. 515x690 mm; 20 1/4x27 inches.
Provenance: Estate of the artist, Boston; sold in his sale, Lewis J. Bird & Co., Boston, February 3-4, 1880, lot 44 (as Scene in Mexico, Three Horsemen in Foreground); Vose Galleries, Boston; William Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1906; Collection of Dr. Alexander C. Humphreys, Morristown, New Jersey; acquired in his sale, American Art Association, New York, February 14-15, 1917, lot 47, by William Macbeth Gallery, New York; Collection of N. E. Montross, New York; acquired in his sale, American Art Galleries, New York, February 8, 1923, lot 16, by Mrs. Henry Harper Benedict (Katherine Geddes Benedict), New York; private collection, South Carolina; private collection, Massachusetts.
Exhibited: Milton Town Hall, Massachusetts, November 11, 1905.
Published: "Boston Art News," American Art News, volume 4, issue 6; "Great Examples of American Painting in N. E. Montross Sale," American Art News, January 27, 1923, volume 21, issue 16, page 5; "N. E. Montross Paintings and Carle Winkler Antiques also on View," New York Herald, February 11, 1923; "$45,630 is Realized for Montross Art," The Art News, February 17, 1923, volume 21, issue 19, page 4.
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
