Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906)

Lake Maggiore, Italy

Details

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906)
Lake Maggiore, Italy
signed with initials 'HBB' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour
10 x 14 in. (25.3 x 35.6 cm.)

Provenance

with Chris Beetles, London.
Gerald M. Norman Gallery, London.

Exhibited

Hastings, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, The Wide World of Hercules Brabazon Brabazon: A Retrospective Exhibition of his Art, 17 July-12 September 1976, no. 46.
London, Campbell and Franks, Hercules Brabazon Brabazon: A Retrospective of his Art, 1976, no. 86.
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale Center for British Art; Cleveland, Museum of Art; and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Victorian Landscape Watercolours, September 1992 - April 1993, exhibition catalogue no. 112, illustrated in colour.

Lot Essay

Brabazon was proposed as a member of the New English Art Club in 1891 and felt honour bound to exhibit that year. One of two landscapes chosen for exhibition was entitled Lago Maggiore and may be the present watercolour.

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