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Sarah Sherwood Clarke (1825-1906) (lots 86-89)
Sarah Sherwood Clarke was one of ten children and the younger sister of the artist, James Sant (1820-1916). Her family were acquainted with John Varley and Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, and all the children would almost certainly have been taught to paint by them. Her style is very much indebted to the Romantic School and she would no doubt have been influenced by the work of Turner. Clarke's work takes on an air of the sublime: the Scottish landscape, with its ruined castles, dark lochs and brooding mountains, appealed to her gothic sensibilities and defied the gentleness of her technique and handling. In the present works - executed on her Grand Tour of Scotland in 1854 - she created a moody evocative world with the bare minimum of colour and understated brush work. Her drawing is quite exemplary and would have certainly appealed to Ruskin had he seen it. Her eye for the picturesque is captured by her atmospheric depictions of familiar landscapes and views of Scotland.
Sarah Sherwood Clarke (1825-1906)
Twelve sketches in Scotland, including frontispiece of album: Glen Nevis; Dunstaffnage Castle; Bull stone, Loch Lomond; Ardlui, Loch Lomond; Fall of Foyers; Stonebyres, River Clyde;Loch Katrine [?]; Bonnington Falls, Clyde; Bull stone pulpit; Castle ruins; and Sail boat on choppy waters (three illustrated)
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Sarah Sherwood Clarke (1825-1906)
Twelve sketches in Scotland, including frontispiece of album: Glen Nevis; Dunstaffnage Castle; Bull stone, Loch Lomond; Ardlui, Loch Lomond; Fall of Foyers; Stonebyres, River Clyde;Loch Katrine [?]; Bonnington Falls, Clyde; Bull stone pulpit; Castle ruins; and Sail boat on choppy waters (three illustrated)
the majority inscribed as titled
pencil and watercolour, on scraper board, unframed
11 x 8 in. (27.9 x 20.3 cm.); and smaller
(12)Twelve in the lot
Twelve sketches in Scotland, including frontispiece of album: Glen Nevis; Dunstaffnage Castle; Bull stone, Loch Lomond; Ardlui, Loch Lomond; Fall of Foyers; Stonebyres, River Clyde;Loch Katrine [?]; Bonnington Falls, Clyde; Bull stone pulpit; Castle ruins; and Sail boat on choppy waters (three illustrated)
the majority inscribed as titled
pencil and watercolour, on scraper board, unframed
11 x 8 in. (27.9 x 20.3 cm.); and smaller
(12)Twelve in the lot