Old Master & British Drawings Sale

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Lot 243
  • 243

A folio of drawings and watercolours

Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • A folio of drawings and watercolours

  • including views of French Peasants; A Lady Riding on a Country Lane; Study of Trees with a Church Beyond; An Architect's Table; and A Shepherd with his Flock; The Rows at Chester; and others

  • one pencil with a pen and brown ink border; one watercolour with pen and black ink, on laid paper; one black chalk; one black chalk, heightened with white, on laid paper watermarked with the Strasburg Lily; and one pen and grey ink with grey wash, on laid paper watermarked: IV; each unframed;
    the first signed lower left: Jean Pillement / 1794;
    the fifth extensively inscribed with artist's notes;
    the sixth later inscribed in pencil, lower left: my fathers drawing of Chester; further later inscribed in pencil, lower right: Humphrey Repton / (1752-1818)

  • 7
By or attributed to Jean Pillement (Lyon 1728-1808) ; John Collet (London 1725-1780); George Frost (Ipswich 1734-1821); Humphrey Repton (Bury St. Edmunds 1752-1818 London); and others

Provenance

The first sale, London, Christie's, 18 April 1967, lot 79;
to Walter Brandt;
the third with The Maas Gallery, by 1962, by whom sold in 1962 to  Walter Brandt ;
the fourth Dr. H.A.C. Gregory;
with The Fine Arts Society, London, by 1957, by whom sold in 1957 to Walter Brandt;
the fifth William Fowkes;
thence by descent to his nephew John L. Marks;
his sale, London, Sotheby's, 20 April 1972, lot 40, to Walter Brandt
the sixth Stephen Rowland Pierce (1896-1966);
his sale, London, Sotheby's, 17 October 1968, lot 135, to Walter Brandt

Exhibited

The third London, Royal Academy, Annual Exhibition, 1776, no 15;
London, The Sabin Galleries, Seventh Annual Exhibition of Old English Watercolour Drawings, 1961, no. 7;
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Exhibition of English Drawings and Watercolours from a Private Collection, 1971, no. 7;
the fourth London, The Fine Art Society, Thirty-Seventh Exhibition of Early English Water-colours and Drawings, 1957, no. 98;
Essex, Saffron Walden Festival, The East Anglian Landscape, 1960, no. 2;
Suffolk, Ickworth House, Exhibition of Early English Water-colours of the Great Period, 1968, no. 11;
the sixth London, Architectural Association, 1950;London, The Arts Club;
Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, 1962, no. 88

Literature

The sixth J. Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1970, pl. 380 (as by Thomas Gainsborough)

Condition

The Rows at Chester: The medium has been well preserved in this work. There is some very minor surface dirt to the paper and there is a repaired tear in the margin, at the right hand edge of the sheet. This work has not been laid down, instead it is attached to the back-board at various points verso.
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