Peter de Wint

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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Description

Peter De Wint
Cookham on the Thames
watercolour over pencil, on two joined sheets
15.5 by 47.5 cm.; 6 by 18 3/4 in.

Provenance

Mrs Harriet de Wint, the artist's wife;
by descent to Helen Tatlock, her daughter;
with Agnew's, London, 1924;
W.C. Henderson, K.C.

Exhibited

Lincoln, Usher Art Gallery, 1937, no. 31

Literature

A. P. Oppé, The Watercolours of Turner, Cox and De Wint, 1925, no. 134, pl. XXXIV

Catalogue Note

Between 1814 and 1829 de Wint made thirteen drawings for W. B. Cooke's Thames Scenery. Although the present watercolour was not engraved for this publication it may well have been drawn during this period. After de Wint's death in 1849 his widow, Harriet, sent a number of his drawings to be sold at Christie's but she kept the remainder, including the present work. Her collection was then inherited by her daughter, Helen Tatlock. After Helen Tatlock's death in 1922 a number of the pictures which had been kept intact since her grandfather's death were dispersed including the present watercolour.

Another watercolour of Cookham on the Thames is now in the collection of the University of Liverpool (no. 222, see David Scrase, Drawings and Watercolours by Peter De Wint, 1979, p.19, no. 46).