Two boys with a donkey

Details

Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (1784-1849)
Two boys with a donkey
watercolour
6½ x 5 7/8 in. (16.5 x 15.2 cm.); and a fragment of a figure study (on the reverse)

Provenance

Mrs Helen Tatlock, the artist's daughter, and by descent to her daughter
Miss Harriet Helen Tatlock (d. 1922), bequeathed to her companion
Miss Muriel Grace Bostock.
Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth, Bt., 1937.
Dr Donald Roman (d. 1993).
with Agnew's, London.

Literature

H. Smith, Peter de Wint, London, 1982, p. 58, fig. 60.
G. Bauer, Le Siècle d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise, Anthèse, 1998, p. 107, pl. 138, illustrated in colour.
W. Hauptman, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, Lausanne, 1999, p. 119, no. 68, illustrated in colour.

Exhibited

Lincoln, Usher Museum, Peter de Wint, 1937, no. 174.
Reading Museum and Art Gallery, Peter de Wint, April 1966, no. 97.
London, Agnew's, Loan Exhibition Paintings and Drawings by Peter de Wint, October 1966, no. 98.
Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, Peter de Wint Bicentenary Exhibition. 1985-6, no. 65A.
London, Agnew's, 121st Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, 1994, no 48, illustrated.
London, Agnew's, 123rd Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, 1996, no. 49, illustrated.
Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, 22 January-24 May 1999, no. 68.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

Hammond Smith dates this drawing to circa 1818.
A related watercolour of a man on a donkey seen from behind was sold in these Rooms, 7 November 1995, lot 150 from Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth's collection. Harmsworth who organised the famous exhibition of de Wint's work at the Usher Gallery in 1937 formed an extensive collection of the artist's work, focussing on Lincolnshire views. The present watercolour left the collection before the Christie's sale in 1993.

More from THE COLLECTION OF MONSIEUR AND MADAME GERALD BAUER

View All