Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906)

Study of 'Sun rising through vapour' after Turner

Details

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906)
Study of 'Sun rising through vapour' after Turner
signed with initials 'HBB' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white, on stone-coloured paper
7½ x 9¾ in. (19 x 24.8 cm.)

Provenance

with Bruce Wightman, London.

Exhibited

London, Leighton House, Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1971, no. 45.
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. 3.
London, Campbell and Franks, Hercules Brabazon Brabazon: A Retrospective of his Art, 1976, no. 10.

Lot Essay

Turner's painting: Sun rising through vapour: Fishermen cleaning and selling fish was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1807 and appears to have been a favourite of both Turner and Brabazon. Brabazon painted another larger study of this picture, and Turner paid a considerable amount more than he sold it for to buy the picture back to leave to the nation. It is now in the Tate Gallery, no. 479. The strong sweep of red paint in the foreground represents the spilled fish from the day's catch.

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