John Frederick Lewis, R.A., P.O.W.S. (London 1804-1876 Walton-on-Thames)

Spanish peasants at Ronda, Spain

Details

John Frederick Lewis, R.A., P.O.W.S. (London 1804-1876 Walton-on-Thames)
Spanish peasants at Ronda, Spain
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic, heightened with bodycolour, and with scratching out
12 x 16½ in. (30.5 x 42 cm.)

Provenance

William Selkirk.
with Leger Gallery, London.
J.G. Pilcher.
with The Fine Art Society, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 9 April 1992, lot 114.

Literature

Maj. Gen. M. Lewis, John Frederick Lewis, R.A. 1805-1876, London, 1978, p. 74, no. 271.

Exhibited

London, The Fine Art Society, December 1963, no. 7227, lent by William Selkirk, Esq.
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, John Frederick Lewis R.A. Exhibition, 1971, no. 31, lent by J.G. Pilcher.

Lot Essay

Lewis travelled to Spain in 1832, arriving in Madrid on 22nd August. The present work was probably one of the several pictures of Spanish life that Lewis exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water-Colours between 1834 and 1835.

We are grateful to Briony Llewellyn for her help in preparing this catalogue entry.

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