FREDERICK WALKER, A.R.A., R.W.S. (1840-1875)

A stream in Inverness-shire

Details

FREDERICK WALKER, A.R.A., R.W.S. (1840-1875)
A stream in Inverness-shire
signed with initials (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gum arabic on paper laid on board
8 ½ x 12 3/8 in. (21.5 x 31.5cm.)

Provenance

with Maas Gallery, London, 1977, where purchased for the present collection.

Literature

'The Works of Frederick Walker A.R.A.', Art Journal, 1876, p. 299.
J.G. Marks, Life and Letters of Fred Walker, London, 1897, pp. 114-116, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Old Water-Colour Society, Summer Exhibition, 1868, no. 276.
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, and Birmingham, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Victorian Landscape Watercolours, 1992-93, no. 67.

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Lot Essay

The present drawing dates to 1867, when Walker took his habitual holiday to Scotland with the sporting artist Richard Ansdell. They stayed at Corrichoillie on the River Spean, Inverness-shire, and spent the first two weeks of their time fishing, before Walker set out to find subjects to paint, and begun this watercolour, which he finished in London later in the year.

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