Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)

Still life with a wooden pail and stoneware vessels

Details

Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)
Still life with a wooden pail and stoneware vessels
pencil and watercolour with scratching out
6 1/8 x 7.3.8 in. (15.5 x 18.7 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 April 1995, lot 117.
with Agnew's, London, 1996.
Monsieur and Madame Gérald Bauer; Christie's, London, 22 January 2003, lot 36.
with Andrew Wyld, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

G. Bauer, Le Siècle d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise, Anthèse, 1998, p. 106, pl. 137.
W. Hauptman, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, Lausanne, 1999, p. 118, no. 67.

Exhibited

London, Agnew's, 123rd Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, 1996, no. 55, illustrated in colour.
Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, 22 January - 24 May 1999, no. 67.
London, W/S Fine Art, Peter De Wint, Colourist and Countryman, November-December 2005, no. 10.

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Lot Essay

Sir Walter Armstrong in his Memoir of Peter De Wint, London, 1888, describes de Wint's method of composing still-life from information provided by a pupil of de Wint, J.M. Heathcote: 'He would take any convenient objects he could find in the room and set them in a group on the table, with a towel or other white cloth carelessly thrown against them. These he required to be carefully imitated' (D. Scrase, Drawings and Watercolours by Peter de Wint, Cambridge, 1979, p. 15).

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