William Groombridge (Tunbridge 1748-1811 Baltimore)

A view of Canterbury

Details

William Groombridge (Tunbridge 1748-1811 Baltimore)
A view of Canterbury
signed and dated 'Wm Groombridge Pinx 1787' (lower left)
oil on canvas
24 x 29 ¼ in. (61 x 74.3 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 7 December 1989, lot 78 (£4,800).
with Lane Fine Art, London, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

Colonel M.H. Grant, A Chronological History of the Old English Landscape Painters, Leigh-on-sea, 1959, IV, p. 308, fig. 322.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1787, no. 391, where described as 'View of Canterbury, from a wood in the road leading to Chatham'.

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Lot Essay

This view of Canterbury, seen across the hop-fields from the Chatham Road, was shown at the Royal Academy in 1787. As Colonel Grant observes, whilst the composition is entirely 'Wilsonic', the ' strange colouring of the various distances are Groombridge's own patent, revealing a painter with intentions unborrowed from any' (op. cit.).

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