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George Maddox
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- George Maddox
- A Capricco of a Greek City in the Time of Pausanius
- Watercolour over pencil, heightened with bodycolour, pen and black ink and scratching out, unframed;
signed, lower right: G. Maddox; further inscribed in pen and brown ink, on two separate sheets: Part of a Greek City in the time of Pausanius / a study - / George Maddox / 81 [?] Newman St. / Oxford St. / No. 2 / Sketch for a Study of a / Greek City in the time of - / Pausanius - / George Maddox / M. of the S. B. A. / 45 Guineas (Sold)
Provenance
Sale, London, Christie's, 4 June 1974, lot 146, to Walter Brandt
Exhibited
London, Suffolk Street, The Royal Society of British Artists, 1827, no. 126
Catalogue Note
George Maddox was the son of a builder of Monmouth. He became an assistant to Sir John Soane but disliked the regime and left. He is best known as the drawing master to a number of celebrated architects including Decimus Burton and Gilbert Scott. The latter described Maddox's 'wonderful power of drawing'. He frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy and an album of his drawings is held at the Royal Institute of British Architect, London, presented by Burton in 1889. The present watercolour was exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1827.