The British Sale: Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours

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Lot 31
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Alfred Stannard 1806-1889

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Description

  • Alfred Stannard
  • View of Burgh Castle, Norfolk, looking towards Reedham, with a gypsy family encamped in the foreground
  • signed with initials l.r.:AS / 1829
  • oil on panel

Provenance

H.A.E. Day of Chickering Hall, Diss, Norfolk, by whom sold, Sotheby's, 20th December 1961, lot 263, bt. Agnew for £230;
P.D. Jolly, 1971

Exhibited

Norwich Society of Artists, 1829, no.69

Catalogue Note

Burgh Castle is situated close to Great Yarmouth at one end of Breydon Water, at the junctions of the Rivers Yare and Waveney.  Burgh Castle is a 3rd century Roman fort, and the thick stone walls visible in the present work defended the Roman camp.  Stannard painted a second view of Burgh Castle, and this work, signed and dated 1845 is in the museum at Great Yarmouth.