View of Nuremberg

Details

SAMUEL PROUT, O.W.S. (PLYMOUTH 1783-1852 LONDON)
View of Nuremberg
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and with scratching out
21 x 28 in. (53.2 x 71 cm.)

Provenance

Sir W. Cuthbert Quilter, Bt. (†); Christie's, London, 22 June 1923, lot 142 (170 gns to Sampson).
with the Rowley Gallery, London.

Literature

F.G. Stephens, 'The Collection of Mr. C. Cuthbert Quilter, M.P. IV. The Deceased English Masters', The Magazine of Art, 20, 1896-97, p.316.

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Lot Essay

The first owner of this magnificent watercolour was Sir Cuthbert Quilter, the founder of the National Telephone Company and M.P. for Sudbury from 1885 to 1906. He built Bawdsey Manor in Suffolk in 1886, and filled it with his remarkable collection of contemporary art and Old Masters, ranging from the Pre-Raphaelites to Gainsborough and Northern European masters.

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