Alfred William Hunt, R.W.S (1830-1896)

Ambleside Mill, Westmoreland, Cumbria

Details

Alfred William Hunt, R.W.S (1830-1896)
Ambleside Mill, Westmoreland, Cumbria
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and with scratching out on paper
15 7/8 x 13 1/8 in. (40.3 x 33.4 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 10 February 1981, lot 13, as 'Children playing by a weir in North Wales'.
with Chris Beetles, London.
The Fuller Collection; Christie's, London, 7 April 2000, lot 18.

Exhibited

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, The Poetry of Truth: Alfred William Hunt and the Art of Landscape, January-April 2005, no. 29.

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Lot Essay

The picturesque mill at Westmoreland was also painted from much the same viewpoint by Turner on his 1797 tour of the lake district, and was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1798. It is now in the University of Liverpool. Another version of the present watercolour was sold in these Rooms, 4 February 1986, lot 97.

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