Lot 139
139
THE PROPERTY OF THE AMBASSADOR COLLEGE, HERTFORDSHIRE (Registered Charity Number 281125)
Edward Williams (1782-1855)

Details
Edward Williams (1782-1855)

Scene at Wargrave: watering Cattle

indistinctly signed 'E. Wms' and signed and inscribed 'No.1/Scene at Wargrave watering Cattle/Edw Williams Sen/32 Castlenau Villas/Barnes' on an old label on the reverse; oil on canvas
30¾ x 43½in. (78.2 x 110.5cm.)
Provenance
With Williams and Sons, London
Literature
Jan Reynolds, The Williams Family of Painters, 1975, pp. 48, 196, repr. pl.19
Exhibited
Possibly the 3rd Exhibition of the Norfolk and Norwich Association, 1852, no.106
The 4th Exhibition of the Norfolk and Norwich Association, 1853, no.84

Lot Essay

The picture was probably exhibited at the Norfolk and Norwich Association in 1852, and it was certainly painted after 1846 as this is when Williams moved to his Castlenau address where he remained until his death in 1855. It appears that when the picture was with Williams and Son, the title on the old label was misread as 'Thames at Wargrave' rather than 'Scene at Wargrave'.

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