Old Master & British Works on Paper
Old Master & British Works on Paper
Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry
Still life with a bottle, a jug and a napkin
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Description
Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry
Peter De Wint, O.W.S.
Stone, Staffordshire 1784 - 1849 London
Still life with a bottle, a jug and a napkin
Watercolour;
inscribed and dated upper left: 7 [?] 1847
225 by 186 mm
De Wint still lifes are rare, and his broad washes make full use of the texture of the paper. Comparisons have been made with the work of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779) in the purity and simplicity of both handling and subject matter. Martin Hardie, author of Water-colour Painting in Britain (1967) wrote: 'these still-lifes reveal a distinct side of de Wint's genius'.2
1. Sir W. Armstrong, Memoir of Peter de Wint, London 1888, p. 68
2. Hardie, op. cit., p. 213