Lot Essay
William Cowen was mainly a landscape painter whose early drawings gained him the patronage of Earl Fitzwilliam, who paid for him to travel through Switzerland and Italy
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William Cowen (1797-1861)
A Salon in a Venetian Palace
signed and dated on the mount 'Mr. Cowen. Sept.7. 1840' (overmounted); pencil and watercolour with touches of white heightening
8 7/8 x 11 7/8in. (225 x 304mm.)
A Salon in a Venetian Palace
signed and dated on the mount 'Mr. Cowen. Sept.7. 1840' (overmounted); pencil and watercolour with touches of white heightening
8 7/8 x 11 7/8in. (225 x 304mm.)