Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)

Seaweed gatherers on the shore at Redcar, Yorkshire

Details

Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)
Seaweed gatherers on the shore at Redcar, Yorkshire
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out
5 7/8 x 12 5/8 in .(15 x 32 cm.)

Provenance

H.J. Tomkins; Christie's, London, 15 April 1932, lot 145 (10 gns to MacDonald).
Walter D. Hetherington; Christie's, London, 14 February 1978, lot 128.
with Agnew's, London, 1990.
with Andrew Wyld, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

Lincoln, Usher Art Gallery, Peter de Wint, 1937, no. 221.
California, San Marino, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, British Landscape Watercolours from Southern Californian Private Collections, 1986-7, no. 22.
London, Andrew Wyld, Peter de Wint, Colourist and Countryman, 16 November - 9 December 2005, no. 23.

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Lot Essay

Formerly entitled 'Shrimpers on a Beach', the present watercolour was identified following the appearance of a closely related composition bearing an inscription 'Redcar' on the reverse. In 1838 De Wint exhibited a View on the Beach at Redcar, looking towards Huncliff at the Old Water-Colour Society, no. 269. It seems likely the artist made a tour of Yorkshire in the summer of 1837 as the 1838 exhibition included a total of five Yorkshire subjects. His other exhibits that year suggest he probably crossed over from Cumbria, where he must have been visiting Lowther Castle, seat of his patron the Earl of Lonsdale.

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