Thomas Robins, Jun. (1745-1806)

A pair of watercolours of flowers and insects including : Palamedes; Almana butterflies; berry-like heath, hoardy-leaved cistus; lantana; prickly broom and Spanish fennel

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Thomas Robins, Jun. (1745-1806)
A pair of watercolours of flowers and insects including : Palamedes; Almana butterflies; berry-like heath, hoardy-leaved cistus; lantana; prickly broom and Spanish fennel
the first signed, inscribed and dated 'Painted from Nature by Th^om. Robins the Younger Bath 1787' (lower right); the second 'Painted from Nature by Th^o the Younger Bath 1784' (lower right), the individual plants and insects annotated with numbers and letters refering to an accompanying key (on a second sheet)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and gum arabic
14 x 9.3/8 in. (35.5 x 23.8 cm.)
a pair (2)

Provenance

Bath & West & Southern Counties Society.
with Spink, London.

Lot Essay

Thomas Robins, Jun. was the son of Thomas Robins (1715-1770), a topographical painter and draughtsman, who used flowers as decorative features in the borders of his views of country houses. One such watercolour, The Grounds of Honington Hall showing the Ornamental Water designed by Sanderson Miller, was sold at Christie's London, 14 July 1987, lot 135 (45,000). Robins Jun. was probably his father's pupil and imitated his style.

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