FINE ART DEALERS AND VALUERS [ Home ] [ Location ] [ Exhibitions ] [ Feedback ] [ Bibliography of Catalogues ] Previous ExhibitionsEdwardian Pre-Raphaelites, The Art of John and Mary Young Hunter8th June - 28th July 2000The Flagmender John Young Hunter Oil on canvas laid on board 24 x 18 in 61 x 45.5 cm Inscribed lower right, 'JY Hunter' The precise purpose of The Flagmender, remains obscure. The girl appears to be repairing a large flag of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which during the ten years preceding the Great War, stumbled from crisis to crisis, as the Hapsburg dynasty went into decline. The work is therefore allegorical, but the precise circumstances of its allegory remain to be explained. |