Sale 5771
London
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8 April 1997
Price realised
GBP 2,300
Estimate
William Havell, O.W.S. (1782-1857) An extensive Landscape, with figures conversing by a roadside pencil and watercolour with scratching out 21 x 29in. (53.6 x 73.7cm.)
Provenance
With Agnew's, London.
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This watercolour shows the influence of Thomas Girtin and John Varley. Havell met Varley in 1802-3 while on a sketching tour in Wales and the Wye Valley. An alternative attribution to William Turner of Oxford has been suggested.
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