John White Abbott
A collection of twelve drawings after engravings by Karel du Jardin, Adriaen van de Velde, Paulus Potter, Annibale Carracci and other hands
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John White Abbott
Exeter 1763-1851
A collection of twelve drawings after engravings by Karel du Jardin, Adriaen van de Velde, Paulus Potter, Annibale Carracci and other hands
Each pencil on wove paper, wash-line mounts;
five signed with the artist's initials, six inscribed
Largest 295 by 413 mm
(12)
by whom given to Miss Rosamund Coldwell,
Cuthbert Heath,
sale, London, Christie's, 14 July 1992, in lots 69 and 70,
where acquired by the present owners
John White Abbot was born in Devon and he worked as a surgeon in Exeter. He was also a very talented amateur artist who took lessons from, and was heavily inspired by, Francis Towne (1739/40-1816). He never travelled abroad and his knowledge of old master paintings was derived from prints and engravings. There is another group of drawings after the old masters by Abbott in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.1
1. See for example: Ashmolean Museum: WA1939.18.3.58
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