Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)

Study of a harvester resting with his scythe

Details

Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)
Study of a harvester resting with his scythe
pencil and watercolour on paper
5¾ x 7½ in. (14.5 x 19 cm.)

Provenance

Harriet de Wint, the artist's wife.
Mrs H. Tatlock, the artist's daughter.
Miss H.H. Tatlock, the artist's granddaughter.
Miss Muriel Grace Bostock, her companion.
Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth, Bt.
Matthew Pryor; Sotheby's, London, 4 July 2002, lot 389.

Exhibited

London, Gerald M. Norman Gallery, Peter De Wint's 'Sketches from Nature' - A Loan Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, May-June 1974, no. 105.
London, W/S Fine Art, Winter 2005, no. 22.
London, W/S Fine Art, Summer 2011, no. 32.

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Lot Essay

The harvester in the present watercolour is clearly a from-life study, made with a brush over minimal pencil lines. Sketches of this kind were kept for use in larger landscape watercolours that would have been painted in the studio.

For a note on the provenance see lot 74. The present watercolour was subseqently in the collection of Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth, and then that of his friend Matthew Pryor, two avid collectors of works by de Wint.

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