Holman Hunt sells below estimate but still sets auction record
Consigned by the debt-ridden Delaware Museum of Art, Isabella and the Pot of Basil by William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) was the top lot of Christie’s sale of Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist art in London last week.
The £2.5m hammer price was an auction record for the artist but was still well below the £5m-8m that…