The Cot, Alphington, Devon

Details

JOHN WHITE ABBOTT (EXETER 1763-1851)
The Cot, Alphington, Devon
inscribed and dated 'The Cot. Sept 15.1814' (on the reverse)
pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour on paper
5 ¼ x 7 ¼ in. (13.3 x 18.4 cm.)

Provenance

Wayland Williams.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14 November 1989, lot 7.
with John Spink, London.
Anonymous sale; Bonham's, London, 26 November 2013, lot 32, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Prospects: An Exhibition of English Landscape Watercolors from English and American Private Collections, 19 October - 19 November 1950, (number untraced).
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, A Hundred Years of English Landscape Drawing, 1960, (number untraced).

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Lot Essay

John White Abbott was Francis Towne’s (1739-1816) most celebrated pupil. He was nephew and heir of Towne’s executor James White (1744-1825). An educated man, he worked as an apothecary and surgeon and socialised in the same genteel Exeter circles that Towne inhabited. Both Abbott and Towne executed views of Alphington, a village two miles south of Exeter, near Peamore.
For another work by the artist, see lot 234.

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