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Artist Unknown
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Description
- Artist Unknown
- A folio of drawings and watercolours
- nine, four signed and five inscribed
- four watercolour over pencil, two pencil, one pen and brown ink, one brown wash over pencil heightened with white and the other black and white chalk on buff paper
by or attributed to Thomas Shotter Boys, Samuel Read, Robert Beavis, Jean-Jacques Masquerier, George Tinlin, John Frederick Lewis and other hands
including views of Paris, San Giorgio Maggiore Venice, The Hotel de Ville Aix la Chapelle, a city on the coast thought to be Alexandria, Gaeta, St Pantaleon Troyes, Hotel de Ville St Omer, a kid and a Spanish figure on horseback
including views of Paris, San Giorgio Maggiore Venice, The Hotel de Ville Aix la Chapelle, a city on the coast thought to be Alexandria, Gaeta, St Pantaleon Troyes, Hotel de Ville St Omer, a kid and a Spanish figure on horseback
Provenance
Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1405a) (Thomas Shotter Boys, Hotel de Ville, St Omer; Samuel Read, Gaeta)
the remaining seven from the folio from the collections of Lord Banbury and other sources. Some purchased from Abbott & Holder in the 1950's and 1960's
Exhibited
Windsor, Eton College, November 1942 (Thomas Shotter Boys, Hotel de Ville, St Omer);
London, Albany Gallery, London to Paris 1820-1845, 16th November - 1st December 1972, no.32 (Jean-Jacques Masquerier, The Hotel de Ville Aix la Chapelle);
Guildford, John Frederick Lewis, October 1977, no.93 (Attributed to John Frederick Lewis, Study of a Kid);
Ludlow Festival, 1983 (Thomas Shotter Boys, Study for a watercolour of Boulogne)