Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, R.A. (1779-1884)

Details
Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, R.A. (1779-1884)

Dead Calm: boats off Cowes Castle

signed with initials
60½ x 98in. (153.7 x 249cm.)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's, 23 May 1947, lot 74 (6 gns. to Brown)
Anon. sale, Christie's, 24 April 1987, lot 68 (#18,000)
Exhibited
Possibly Royal Academy, 1827, no. 291
Engraved
Dibden, in lithograph, for Dafforne

Lot Essay

Callcott's catalogue of his own paintings list two of this subject; one was painted for Sir Thomas Heathcote in 1817, and the other for Mr. Bennet in 1837. Callcott also did a small sketch of the subject (now lost) for Sir James Willoughby Gordon, husband of Turner's pupil Julia Bennet, in 1816, and there is a later finished watercolour in the Mellon collection.

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