Hurstmonceaux Castle, Sussex

Details

Thomas Richard Underwood (1772-1836)
Hurstmonceaux Castle, Sussex
signed, dated and numbered 'T.R. Underwood/March 1794/45' (on the reverse)
pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour
9½ x 7½ in. (24.1 x 19 cm.)

Provenance

Canon Francis H.D. Smythe; Christie's, London, 13 March 1961, lot 163 (part).
with Irene and Stanhope Shelton.

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Lot Essay

A member of both the Munro School and Thomas Girtin's sketching club 'The Brothers', Underwood was a chemist, geologist and draughtsman. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy between 1789 and 1802 and in 1792 provided a Cornish subject for J. Britton's Beauties of England and Wales.

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