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Gallery: Please Note: These works are a selection from the display.
 
The Bride 1842
Oil on Winsor and Newton canvas, 90 x 70 cm
Signed on verso: ‘T Von Holst/1842’ with an outline sketch of two male figures
Prov: Duchess of Sutherland, Stafford Collection; Miss Susannah Newbould, Bolerbrook Castle, sold Christie’s, 10th October 1969, to Gray for 290 guineas (£304.50)
Exh: London, British Institution 1842 with the quote from Shelley, Ginevra.


   
   
Young Child Astride a Model Dog
Oil on canvas, 58.4 x 50.8cm
Prov: Holst family by descent
Cheltenham, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum


Clarissa Harlowe in the Prison Room of the Sheriff’s Office [c. 1833 – 7]
(S. Richardson, Clarissa, Letter CVI)
Oil on (relined) canvas, 76.1 x 63.2cm
[if the present attribution is correct, this may be The Victim exhibited at the British Institution, 1836 or The Weeping Girl in the Rolls Archives]
England, Private Collection
 
 
Macbeth and the Ghost of Banquo in the Witches’ Cavern [c. 1830 – 37]
(Shakespeare, Macbeth, IV, i)
Oil on canvas 87.6 x114.3cm
Prov: Sterne Gallery, London 1976
England, Private Collection


     
     
Portrait of a Young Child [c.1835]
Oil on canvas, 60x49cm
Prov: Von Holst family by descent
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum (HBM)


Portrait of Constantia von Holst [c.1830-35]
Oil on canvas, 44x33cm (oval)
Prov: Von Holst family by descent
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum (HBM)

The Wish
Oil on Winsor and Newton Canvas, 90 x 71cm)
Signed on verso: ‘T. Von. Holst Pinx./1840’ with sketches of a face in profile and several hands (canvas now relined)
Prov: Lord Northwick, Thirlestaine House Collection sold Phillips, 26th July 1859 £110 5s (£110.25), to Joseph Lovegrove FSA Elton House, Gloucester then Christie’s Sale, 31st March 1883
Exh: London, British Institution, 1841
Mephistopheles and Student in Faust’s Study [c. 1825-7]
(Goethe, Faust I, VII)
Pencil, 22 x 19cm
Inscribed, ‘2 Von Holst’
Watermarked ‘J. Whatman 1825’
Prov. Rolls Album; Colnaghi; Christopher Powney
Cheltenham, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum

Self Portrait with Brother Gustavus
[c 1830-5]

Oil on canvas, 74.9 x 61cm
Prov: Holst family by descent
Cheltenham, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum on permanent display at the Holst Birthplace Museum

   
 


             
 
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