George Vicat Cole, R.A. (1833-1893)

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George Vicat Cole, R.A. (1833-1893)
Chepstow, from the Windcliff

signed and dated 'Vicat Cole/1853' and signed 'Vicat Cole' on the stretcher and further signed and inscribed 'Chepstow and the Severn ... the Wyndcliff Vi.. le/2 Lewis Place/Fulham' on an old label on the stretcher; oil on canvas
36 x 60in. (91.5 x 152.5cm.)

Provenance

With Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London

Exhibited

London, British Institution, 1853, no.447

Lot Essay

The picture seems to be related to a watercolour of Chepstow Castle, dated 1851, reproduced in T.M. Barringer The Cole Family: Painters of the English Landscape 1838-1975, 1988, p.77.
We are grateful to Timothy Barringer for his help in preparing this entry.

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