Refining Taste: Works Selected by Danny Katz
Refining Taste: Works Selected by Danny Katz
JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS, R.A. | STUDY OF A YOUNG NEAPOLITAN WOMAN IN ROME
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May 27, 03:14 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS, R.A.
1804-1876
STUDY OF A YOUNG NEAPOLITAN WOMAN IN ROME
signed and inscribed Rome/ JF Lewis (lower right)
pencil, black chalk and watercolour heightened with bodycolour on paper
unframed: 35.5 by 25cm., 14 by 10in.
framed: 52 by 41cm., 20½ by 16in.
Executed circa 1840.
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Sir William Drake
Charles Frederick Huth (1806-1895)
Christie's, London, 8 July 1895, lot 200 (as A Roman Peasant Girl, 6 gns to De Pass)
Deighton's Strand Gallery, London
Christie's, London, 16 November 2006, lot 186
Agnew's, London
Possibly Major General J.M. Lewis, John Frederick Lewis, R.A., 1805-1879, Leigh-on-Sea, 1978, p.78, cat. no.329
This work is a preparatory study for a figure that appears in Lewis' large-scale watercolour, Easter Day at Rome - Pilgrims and Peasants of the Neapolitan States Awaiting the Benediction of the Pope at St Peter's.
Lewis executed two versions of this subject. They each date to 1840 and he exhibited one of them at the 1841 Old Water Colour Society Exhibition.1
Lewis was in Rome from late 1838 to 1840, before travelling on to Greece and Istanbul.
1. The first of these works is now held in the Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery, while the second, which only shows the middle section of the composition, is now in the Northampton Art Gallery.