Old Master and British Works on Paper
Old Master and British Works on Paper
Property from a British Private Collection
Peter De Wint, O.W.S.
A River landscape with cattle and mountains beyond, possibly on the River Eden looking towards the Pennine escarpment, Cumberland
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Property from a British Private Collection
Peter De Wint, O.W.S.
1784 - 1849
A River landscape with cattle and mountains beyond, possibly on the River Eden looking towards the Pennine escarpment, Cumberland
Watercolor, heightened with scratching out
380 by 580 mm; 15 by 22¾ in.
Miss F. Nightingale,
with Agnew's, London,
by whom sold to John Giles Pilcher (d. 1982), by 1966,
by descent to the present owner
Peter de Wint has long been considered as one of the greatest of all British watercolorists. Indeed in the 1966 exhibition, arranged by Agnew's, Evelyn Joll went as far as to state that 'no artist of his time used watercolor in a purer manner, or exploited the fluidity of the medium more daringly'.1Although in that exhibition the present work was exhibited under the title 'Landscape', it has recently been suggested that the subject may be the River Eden in the Lake District. A watercolor of that subject was exhibited by de Wint at the Old Water Colour Society in 1839.2
We are grateful to Professor David Hill for his help when cataloguing this work.
1. E. Joll, Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Peter de Wint, London 1966, p. 3
2. See London, Andrew Wyld, Peter de Wint, 1979, no. 62, exhibition catalogue.
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