Passing down through the generations on my Mum’s side of my family is a lovely framed print of what we have always called the Penny A Bunch Painting.
From my earliest memories I recall the print hanging on the living room wall of my Grandparents home in Palmerston North.
With the passing of my parents it was a lovely surprise to find I am now custodian of the family print.
This print is around 114years old, and by the British artist G E Hicks. It Depicts a pretty girl with blue eyes selling her violets; and is signed by GE Hicks 99.
Painted in Launceston Tasmania, Hicks met this child on a casual trip and was enchanted with her…and asked to paint her.