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

Cattle watering at a ford

Details

Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)
Cattle watering at a ford
pencil and watercolour on paper
7½ x 10 1/8 in. (19 x 25.7 cm.)

Provenance

Josiah Vavasseur.
John Arbuthnot, Lord Fisher (1841-1920).
Michael Pryor; Sotheby's, London, 4 July 2002, lot 318.

Literature

H. Smith, Peter DeWint 1784-1849, 1982, pp. 61, 68, fig. 64.

Exhibited

London, Andrew Wyld, Peter de Wint, Watercolours, Drawings and Oil Paintings, 25 September-18 October 1979, no. 3.
London, W/S Fine Art, Autumn 2005, no. 55.

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Lot Essay

The composition of the present drawing owes much to Gainsborough, although it probably shows de Wint capturing a scene he recognised to be Gainsborough-like, rather than basing his watercolour on any particular drawing or painting by the older master. John Ellis points out that the landscape is characteristic of the Lincolnshire Middle Marsh, a flat region marked by shallow bodies of water and pollarded willows.

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