A fishing vessel heading out to sea, a church beyond, possibly Belgium

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Thomas Shotter Boys, N.W.S. (London 1803-1874)
A fishing vessel heading out to sea, a church beyond, possibly Belgium
signed 'T. Boys' (lower right)
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour with scratching out
3¼ x 5 7/8 in. (8.3 x 14.9 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Influenced by Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828) who Boys met in Paris, stylistically the present watercolour is comparable to his early works of the 1830s. Bonington's influence is visible in the use of scratching out and sweeping washes of colour.

It has not been possible to identify the landscape in the present watercolour, but the church in the centre of the sheet is similar to one illustrated in a watercolour of 1830 that sold in these Rooms on 3 June 2004, lot 103, entitled A river landscape, possibly near Brussels, Belgium.

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