Lot Essay
Callow visited Bruges in 1844 on a trip to the Rhine and Moselle. He stopped at Bruges and Malines and made a number of sketches before going on to Cologne, then up the Rhine by steamer to Coblenz. Callow returned to Belgium with his wife, Harriet, in 1850, visiting Lille Courtrai, Tournai, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp. The present watercolour is possibly the one exhibited by Callow in the winter of 1876, as 'A Street in Bruges - Morning' at the Society of Painters in Watercolours.