Figures and livestock by the ruins of St. Andrew's at Whitlingham

细节

George Vincent (1796-1836)
Figures and livestock by the ruins of St. Andrew's at Whitlingham
oil on panel
25½ x 21 in. (64.8 x 53.4 cm.)

来源

Mrs C. Hancock; Christie's, London, 27 January 1881, lot 107 (121 guineas to Starke).
Holbrook Gaskell (+); Christie's, London, 24 June 1909, lot 99 (48 guineas to Frank Gaskell).
Mr & Mrs Ernest Gaskell; Sotheby's, London, 15 November 1989, lot 88, recording that it was 'indistinctly inscribed Ruins of Whitlingham Church, near Norwich on an old label attached to the reverse, and with the artist's seal' (unsold).
Mrs J.S. Gaskell (+); Sotheby's, London, 9 April 1997, lot 68 (sold £10,200).

展览

Glasgow, International Exhibition, 1901, lent by Holbrook Gaskell, no.873.
Wolverhampton, Municiple Museum and Art Gallery, Descriptive Catalogue of Paintings by Masters of the English School, 1927, no.48. Wolverhampton, Municiple Art Gallery, The Gaskell Collection of Paintings by Masters of English Landscape, 1951, no.58.

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拍品专文

Whitlingham near Norwich was a favourite romantic walking spot in the nineteenth Century, often frequented by artists of the Norwich School for its picturesque potential. The ruin of St Andrew's church stood high on a ridge above the river Yare; the church had fallen in to disrepair and ceased to function after the Reformation. It is thought that the church's round tower underwent some architectural restoration in the nineteenth Century, but it collapsed due to a landslide in 1940.
George Vincent exhibited his first pictures with the Norwich Society of artists in 1811. He studied under John Crome (1768-1821), forming a friendship with John Berney Crome (1794-1842), whom he accompanied to Paris in 1816 before moving to London. Vincent was successfully patronised by London society and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy. In 1832 the Society of British Artists exhibited a selection of his works at its winter exhibition.