A path through a wooded landscape

Details

Newton Bennett (1854-1914)
A path through a wooded landscape
signed and dated 'N Bennett. 1885' (lower right)
watercolour with gum arabic heightened with bodycolour
16¾ x 12 1/8 in. (42.5 x 30.8 cm.)

Provenance

with Thicke Galleries, Swansea.

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Lot Essay

Bennett was collaterally descended from Sir Isaac Newton and devoted himself to art from the age of seventeen, specialising in landscape paintings in both oil and watercolour. He was a friend of Alfred Fripp, Alfred Hunt and Alfred Hughes among other artists and worked in various locations around the British Isles including the New Forest.

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