Huy on the Meuse, France after Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)

Details

Pupil of John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Huy on the Meuse, France after Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)
with inscription 'Huy on the Meuse' and further indistinctly inscribed (Lower centre)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white on blue paper, unframed
6½ x 8¼in. (16.5 x 21cm.)
and an unframed watercolour of Montjean-sur-Loire, after Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) by another hand (2)

Provenance

Lt. General George Morton Eden, Scots Fusilier Guards
and by descent

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Lot Essay

The Huy on the Meuse originally in the collection of Ruskin was given to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1861; it is here that Ruskin's pupil is likely to have seen it.

Lieutenant General Eden is known to have joined Turner on one of his sketching tours.

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