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Lot Essay
According to a note on the stretcher, the present lot was executed circa 1820 in the opinion of Herman Voss.
The artist spent the majority of his life in Italy and Germany, where he achieved a considerable reputation as a landscape painter. Wallis turned to literary subjects after 1800. For more information on the atrist see Klaus Graf von Baudiffin, G.A. Wallis, 1924 and J. Ingamells, A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy 1701-1800, New Haven/London, 1997, pp. 973/974.
The artist spent the majority of his life in Italy and Germany, where he achieved a considerable reputation as a landscape painter. Wallis turned to literary subjects after 1800. For more information on the atrist see Klaus Graf von Baudiffin, G.A. Wallis, 1924 and J. Ingamells, A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy 1701-1800, New Haven/London, 1997, pp. 973/974.