Alfred William Hunt, R.W.S. (1830-1896)

Bamburgh Castle at low tide

Details

Alfred William Hunt, R.W.S. (1830-1896)
Bamburgh Castle at low tide
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic, touches of bodycolour and with scratching out
15 x 21¾ in. (38.1 x 55.3 cm.)

Provenance

The Newall Collection; Christie's London, 14 December 1979, lot 172.

Exhibited

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, Coronation Exhibition, 1953, no. 50.

Lot Essay

Hunt stayed with Mr and Mrs Robert Stirling Newall and their family at Bamburgh Castle in 1871 when the Newalls had taken a lease of the Castle from Lord Crewe.
A watercolour belonging to Norman C. Cookson, entitled Bamborough, Sunny, was exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1897, no. 95.

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