Old Master & British Works on Paper
Old Master & British Works on Paper
Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry
John Hamilton Mortimer, A.R.A.
Four Banditti in a Landscape
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6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry
John Hamilton Mortimer, A.R.A.
Eastbourne 1740 - 1779 London
Four Banditti in a Landscape
Pen and black ink on laid paper
276 by 212 mm
Sir George Beaumont, 7th Bt (1753-1827)
J. Sunderland, 'John Hamilton Mortimer. His life and works', Walpole Society, vol. LII, 1986, p. 203, no. 174, fig. 301
Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery & London, Kenwood House, John Hamilton Mortimer, A.R.A. 1740-1779, 1986, no. 64
This drawing dates to the middle of the 1770s and belongs to a group that focus on banditti and soliders.1
The work belonged to Sir George Beaumont, 7th Bt, a leading figure in the artistic and literary worlds of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
1. Sunderland, op. cit., pp. 201-203, nos, 169-177
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