Lot Essay
The present watercolour is stylistically close to the work of the Prinsep family of artists. Brunton may have come into contact with them whilst working in Calcutta.
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View on the Hooghly river above Calcutta
Details
Richard Brunton, early 19th Century
View on the Hooghly river above Calcutta
signed 'R Brunton' (lower right) and inscribed and dated 'Sep. 1820' (on the original mount, according to a label attached to the backboard)
pencil and watercolour with scratching out
9¾ x 13¼ in. (25 x 33.5 cm.)
View on the Hooghly river above Calcutta
signed 'R Brunton' (lower right) and inscribed and dated 'Sep. 1820' (on the original mount, according to a label attached to the backboard)
pencil and watercolour with scratching out
9¾ x 13¼ in. (25 x 33.5 cm.)
Provenance
with Spink, London.
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