William Callow, R.W.S. (London 1812-1908 Great Missenden)

Entrance to the port of Le Havre, France

Details

William Callow, R.W.S. (London 1812-1908 Great Missenden)
Entrance to the port of Le Havre, France
signed and dated 'William Callow 1898' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour
18 ½ x 25 in. (47 x 63.5 cm.)

Provenance

Mrs. Callow.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's 14 March 1962, lot 22.
C.E. Hanscombe and by descent in the family.

Literature

H.M. Cundall, ed., William Callow, R.W.S. F.R.G.S., An Autobiography, London, 1908, pp. 89, no. 167, illustrated facing p. 88 (in colour).
J. Reynolds, William Callow, London, 1980, p. 225.

Exhibited

London, Society of Painters in Watercolour, Summer 1898, no. 81.

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Lot Essay

Callow visited Le Havre on numerous occasions from 1835. Callow stated in his autobiography, that 'In 1843 I exhibited a painting of the 'Port of Havre at the Old Society. It was purchased by Mr Prinsep as a gift for a distinguished Indian, Dwarkanath Tagore, as it represented the place from which he embarked for England...[this drawing was] subsequently sent to him in India' (Cundall, op. cit, p. 89). It is not known how similar the earlier watercolour is to the present one exhibited fifty-five years later but the present watercolour remained with the artist's family upon his death.

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