St Mark's Square, Venice

Details

George Owen Wynne Apperley (1884-1960)
St Mark's Square, Venice
signed 'APPERLEY' (lower right) and with inscription 'Piazza San Marco, Venice by O. Wynne Apperley. [...] Studio Talk XXXIX No165 December 1906 Factor Tobisch Bozen. 1909.' (on a label attached to the reverse)
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of white and with scratching out
5 x 8¼ in. (12.7 x 21 cm)

Provenance

Anonymous Sale; Hatung and Karl, Munich, December 1906.

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Lot Essay

Apperley has been described as one of the finest of the Last Romantics. Descended from a long noble line of the d'Apperleys of Normandy, he was also the grandson of the famous sporting journalist 'Nimrod'. His ambition to be an artist was fulfilled at an early age, studying at the Herkomer Academy, at Bushey, and first exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1905.

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