Pollitt (Charles Stanley)

, , c.1930.
a sensitive bust-length portrait of a baby, the title doubtless referring to the look of wonderment in the innocent eyes of an awakening mind. Charles Stanley Pollitt (1888-1965), painter and printmaker, was a follower of the Pre-Raphaelites having trained as the studio assistant of William Holman Hunt. Later he travelled and worked on the Continent, including as a copyist at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, then becoming Professor of English at the Vatican..
165 by 120mm (6½ by 4¾ inches).