Francis Wheatley, R.A. (1747-1801)

A Woodman returning Home, Evening

Details

Francis Wheatley, R.A. (1747-1801)
A Woodman returning Home, Evening
oil on canvas
22¼ x 18 in. (56.5 x 45.7 cm.)

Provenance

The Artist; Christie's, 13 January 1795, lots 70 (sold together with lot 69, 23 gns. to Thompson).
with J. Leger & Son, January 1960.
Mrs Eleanor G. MacCracken.

Literature

M. Webster, Francis Wheatley, 1970, p. 146, no.94, pl. 101.

Engraved

J. Whessel, 1797.

Lot Essay

The present picture and its companion piece A Potter going to Market with a Storm approaching, Morning, were sold at the artist's sale at Christie's in 1795. By the end of 1793 Wheatley had serious debts and agreed to a sale of his effects, including his house and its contents. On 13 January 1795 the diarist Joseph Farington records: 'Wheatley's, drawings and pictures were sold today ... Two of a smaller size sold in frames for £24.3. -' (see The Diary of Joseph Farington, Ed. K. Garlick and A. Macintyre, II, New Haven and London, 1978, p. 291-2).

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