Trees on the banks of a lake at dusk, probably near Bristol

Details

George Arthur Fripp, R.W.S. (1813-1896)
Trees on the banks of a lake at dusk, probably near Bristol
signed and dated 'G.A.Fripp./1837.' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour with scratching out
11½ x 8¼ in. (29.2 x 20.9 cm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1983, lot 129.

Literature

G. Bauer, Le Siècle d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise, Anthèse, 1998, p. 128, pl. 173, illustrated in colour.
W. Hauptman, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, Lausanne, 1999, p. 180, pl. 120, illustrated in colour.

Exhibited

Lausanne, Fondation de L'Hermitage, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, 22 January - 24 May 1999, no. 120.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

Very similar in composition to a watercolour by fellow Bristol artist William James Müller, exhibited at Agnew's, London, 2002, no. 65. In the Agnew's catalogue the Müller version is compared with a view of a lake entitled Compton Dando near Bristol in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
As J.L. Roget wrote in A History of the Old Water-Colour Society, London and New York, 1891, p. 268, Fripp's works were 'characterized by refined delicacy and tenderness of aerial effect, by truth of colour, and by the learned breadth and scrupulous balance of their composition'.

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