William Havell (Reading 1782-1857 London)

A mountainous river landscape with a rainbow

Details

William Havell (Reading 1782-1857 London)
A mountainous river landscape with a rainbow
watercolour with scratching out
5 x 7 ½ in. (12.7 x 19.2 cm.)

Provenance

with Spink, London.

Literature

F. Owens, William Havell 1782-1857, Reading Museum and Art Gallery, 1981, p. 22.

Exhibited

Reading, Reading City Museum and Art Gallery; William Havell Bicentenary Exhibition, 1982, no. 18.

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Lot Essay

The Reading exhibition catalogue notes the work's similarity to an oil sketch on paper of Skelwith Force (no 17 in the 1982 exhibition) and suggests that it may depict the same scene and was executed on the same trip . This trip was recorded in the diary of Jessy Harden on 11 August 1807: 'We had visit from two artists introduced by William (W.H) Reinagle and Havell. We all walked to Skelwith and roamed by the bridge'.

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