The Island Campanile, Orta, Italy

Details

Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W. (1880-1969)
The Island Campanile, Orta, Italy
signed 'W. RUSSELL FLINT' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'The Island Campanile, Orta/W Russell Flint' (on the backboard)
watercolour
9 7/8 x 14¾ in. (25 x 37.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Frost and Reed, London.

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Lot Essay

The picture shows Isola San Giulio, an Island on Lake Orta, in the Alpine foothills of northern Italy which has inspired poets and writers from Robert Browning to Friedrich Nietzsche. St Julius, who arrived at Lake Orta over 1,600 years ago, founded the basilica, whose campanile Flint has depicted in the present watercolour.

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