JOHN `WARWICK` SMITH, O.W.S. (CUMBERLAND 1749-1831 LONDON)

Lot 94
06.07.2021 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 94 | JOHN 'WARWICK' SMITH, O.W.S. (CUMBERLAND 1749-1831 LONDON)
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£ 6 000 – 10 000
JOHN 'WARWICK' SMITH, O.W.S. (CUMBERLAND 1749-1831 LONDON)

Head of Windermere from Belle Grange Farm

signed and dated 'J. Smith 1789' (lower right) and inscribed 'Head of Windermere, from Belle Grange Farm. No 23. (upper centre, on the artists original mount)

pencil and watercolour with scratching out

13 5/8 x 20 1/8 in. (34.6 x 51 cm.)







Provenance

J.C. Curwen, and by descent.

with Agnew's, London, 1970, where purchased for the present collection.





Literature

C. Powell and S. Hebron, A Cumbrian Artist Rediscovered: John Smith (1749-1831), Grasmere, 2011, p. 82.





Exhibited

Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, The English Lakes. Water-colour drawings by John 'Warwick' Smith (1749-1831), 1949, no. 12.





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