Haymaking with a distant view of Lincoln

Details

Peter de Wint (1784-1849)
Haymaking with a distant view of Lincoln
with inscription '[Tat]lock' (on an old label attached to the reverse)
oil on paper laid down on panel
5¼ x 13¾ in. (13.4 x 35 cm.)

Provenance

Helen Tatlock, the artist's daughter, and by inheritance to
Harriet Helen Tatlock;
by whom given to Muriel Grace Bostock.
Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth.
Dr. Donald Roman.

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Lot Essay

This work, with its emphasis on the horizontal, captures the character of the Lincolnshire countryside that most appealed to the artist, as Sir Walter Armstrong noted; 'Most of his early and valuable studies were made at Lincoln and the neighbourhood, where he ever found new beauties and new subjects...the cornfields and hayfields and above all the magnificent cathedral seen from so many points afforded him unceasing delight.' (Sir W. Armstrong, Memoir of the life of Peter de Wint, 1888, p. 30).

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