William Locke

A child with her nursemaid and mother

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July 8, 01:27 PM GMT

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry

William Locke

1767 - 1847 Paris

A child with her nursemaid and mother

Pen and brown ink over pencil, together with two wash drawings of woodland at Norbury Park by Sir George Beaumont, 7^th Bt (1753-1827) and a letter addressed to William Locke by William Downes;

the first signed verso: W Lock aug 1784, the letter dated 27 December 1791

Various sizes

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The William Locke: M. Hardie, Water-Colour Painting in Britain, vol. III, London 1967, pl. 278

Locke was the eldest son of William Locke of Norbury Park, Surrey, the great friend of John Julius Angerstein (see lot 174) and significant patron of the arts.

Locke the younger was a talented artist and was a pupil and close friend of Henry Fuseli. Fuseli dedicated lectures to him at the Royal Academy and apparently admired his 'amiability of character and his extensive knowledge… [and] his taste and critical judgment in the fine arts',¹ In 1791 Locke travelled to Italy on a Grand Tour but in Rome he abandoned the idea of becoming a painter, having been intimidated by the feats of the Old Masters.

He inherited the estate at Norbury in 1810 - upon the death of this father - but in 1819 he and his wife, Elizabeth Jennings, moved aboard, firstly living in Rome and then later in Paris.

This lot contains two wash drawings of woodland at Norbury by Sir George Beaumont, 7^th Bt, a leading figure in the artistic and literary worlds of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

1. John Knowles, The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, London 1831, p. 60