Important British Watercolours

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Lot 275
  • 275

Turner of Oxford - Eilean Donan Castle, w/c,fr.

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour and scratching out

Catalogue Note

This view will have been witnessed by Turner of Oxford in the summer of 1838.  Highland views had become popular subjects for collectors at the Society of Painters in Water Colour, noted by Turner of Oxford in a letter to the Secretary, 3rd January 1857, 'drawings of mountain scenery....of late seem to be preferred by my friends,' and large watercolours such as this, especially with distant sunsets made a powerful impression on collectors in the 1840's and 1850's.