Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Property of a gentleman
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. | THE FALLS AT TIVOLI, ITALY
Lot Closed
July 29, 02:47 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a gentleman
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A.
London 1775 - 1851
THE FALLS AT TIVOLI, ITALY
Watercolour over pencil, heightened with scratching out
framed: 615 by 695 mm
unframed: 284 by 414 mm
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William Leech (1837-1887);
his executor's sale, London, Christie's, 21 May 1887, lot 86, bt. Mclean;
with Agnew's, Manchester;
Major J.B. Upton (1900-1976), Hornsea, Yorkshire
It has been suggested that Turner painted this view of the waterfalls of Tivoli in around 1796, the year that he first exhibited at the Royal Academy.
This large – for the period – sheet has not appeared at auction since William Leech’s executor’s sale of 1887. Leech, who was Beatrix Potter's uncle, came from a family of cotton mill owners. He and his wife lived in Kensington Gardens, London, where they kept a fine collection of pictures. The 1887 sale at Christie’s, for example, contained over twenty watercolours by Turner and many other leading artists of the day.