The School-Girl's Hymn

W. Holman Hunt

1859

Oil on panel

25 x 35 cm.

The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology WA1894.2

This image can be used for non-commercial research or private study purposes under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Bequeathed by Thomas Combe, 1893

According the the Ashmoleon site, “This is a 'pot-boiler' and shows 'a girl going to school in a smiling summer Sunday morning, singing her hymn as she walks along'. The model was Miriam Wilkinson, a labourer's daughter Hunt met while staying with Thomas Combe at a farmhouse near Hastings in Kent in 1858. The painting was completed in October 1859 and bought by Combe before the opening of an exhibition at Gambart's gallery.”