Studies for Paddington Canal: figures on a launch (recto); a man in a top hat (verso)

Details

Benjamin West, P.R.A (Pennsylvania 1738-1820 London)
Studies for Paddington Canal: figures on a launch (recto); a man in a top hat (verso)
black chalk on oatmeal paper
3¾ x 4 3/8 in. (96 x 112 mm.); and a sheet of studies of landscape and figure studies (2)

Provenance

The artist's family, and by descent to
Mrs P. Howard; Sotheby's, London, 22 March 1979, part of lot 11.

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Lot Essay

The double-sided sketch is related to a finished painting by West, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1802 as 'The Paddington passage boats returning from Uxbridge in the evening' and now in the Detroit Institute of Arts (H. von Erffa and A. Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, New Haven and London, 1986, no. 466).

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