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John Robert Cozens

In the Valley near Vietri

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January 25, 04:44 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

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John Robert Cozens

London 1752 - 1797

In the Valley near Vietri 


Watercolor over traces of pencil;

inscribed in pen and brown ink, possibly in Beckford's hand, versoConvent near Vietri; further inscribed in pencil, verso: In the Valley near Vietri  

264 by 378 mm; 10⅜ by 14⅞ in.

Probably William Beckford (1760-1844),
his sale, London, Christie's, 10 April 1805, lot 52, as 'Convent near Vietri', bt. Barrett, 4.10 gns.;
Charles Edmund Newton-Robinson (1853-1913);
Charles Morland Agnew, O.B.E. (1855-1931),
thence by family descent to the present owner  
London, Agnew's, Selected Water-Colour Drawings by Artists of the Early English School, 1919, no. 47;
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Drawings by John Robert Cozens, 1922-1923, no. 27;
Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, Water-colour Drawings by J.R. Cozens and J.S. Cotman, 1937, no. 66;
London, Royal Academy, European Masters of the Eighteen Century, 1954-1955, no. 550;
Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery and London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Watercolours by John Robert Cozens, 1971, no. 55  
C.F. Bell, and T. Girtin, 'The Drawings and Sketches of John Robert Cozens', Walpole Society, London 1935, vol. 23, p. 59, no. 264, pl. XXIa;
A.P. Oppé, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, London 1952, p. 145, fig. 35;
H. Lemaitre, Le Paysage Anglais à l'Aquarelle, Paris 1955, p. 126, note 1