View of the Needles, Isle of Wight, from Christchurch

Details

George Vincent (1796-1832)
View of the Needles, Isle of Wight, from Christchurch
signed with a monogram and dated 'GV 1828' (on boat, lower left) and signed and inscribed 'No.3 View of the Needles Isle of/White [sic.] from Christchurch Geo Vincent -' (on an old label attached to the reverse)
oil on panel
10¾ x 15 in. (27.3 x 38.2 cm.)

Provenance

Possibly G. Steer.
W.A. Benton, from whom bought by Frank Gaskell;
Thence by family descent until;
Mr & Mrs Ernest Gaskell; Sotheby's, London, 15 November 1989, lot 85 (sold £28,600).
Sotheby's, London, 15 July 1992, lot 66 (sold £12,650).

Exhibited

Possibly Suffolk Street, 1832, no.431, (lent by G. Steer).
Wolverhampton, Municipal Museum and Art Gallery, The Gaskell Collection of Paintings by Masters of English Landscape, 1927, no.38. Wolverhampton, Municipal Art Gallery Gallery, The Gaskell Collection of English Landscape, 1951, no.57.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Christchurch bay, western Isle of Wight, looks on to the Needles at the western most point of the island. Today there are only three chalk pinnacles of approximately 100 ft. (30 m.), but at the time when Vincent painted the present work there were five.

For more information on the artist, see lot 123.

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