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A Beggar boy with a performing monkey sitting on his shoulder inscribed to the reverse with the artist's name oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm

Footnote: In 1831, Hurlstone was elected a member of the Society of British Artists and henceforth exhibited numerous pictures of Italian and Spanish rustic subjects, such as the present painting. After a visit to Italy in 1835, he painted particularly beggar boys and vagabonds in the manner of Murillo and Velázquez. A label attached to the stretcher would seem to associate this lot with a picture that Hurlstone exhibited at the Society of British Artists in 1833, no. 202, titled ‘Italian boy painted in Rome’.

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