ID 587658
Lot 99 | JOHN ROBERT COZENS (LONDON 1752-1799)
Valeur estimée
£ 300 000 – 500 000
In the Gardens of the Villa Negroni at Rome
pencil and watercolour with scratching out
10 ¼ x 14 5/8 in. (26 x 37.2 cm.)
Provenance
William Beckford; Christie's, London, 10 April 1805, lot 84 (6 gns to Hearne).
Charles Sackville Bale (L.640); Christie's, London, 13 May 1881, lot 36 (15 gns to Agnew).
C. Morland Agnew.
Hugh L. Agnew, and by descent to the present owner.
Literature
F. Gibson, 'The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens', Studio, February 1917, p. 14.
A.J. Finberg, 'Early English Water-Colour Drawings by the Great Masters', Studio, 1919, pp. 24-25.
C.F. Bell and T. Girtin, 'The Drawings and Sketches of John Robert Cozens', Walpole Society, XXIII, London, 1935, p. 72, no. 368.
H. Lemaitre, Le Paysage Anglais a l'Aquarelle, Paris, 1955, p. 126.
G. Agnew, Agnew’s 1817-1967, London, 1967, illustrated.
M.-C. Beaulieu Orma, 'Le Grand Tour comme laboratoire du paysage figure pour John Robert Cozens et ses mécènes: aux fondement de l'inventivité, Dix-Huitième Siecle, July 2018, p. 53.
Exhibited
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Drawings in Water Colours by Artists born anterior to 1800, 1871, no. 240.
London, Royal Academy, The Old Masters, including Water Colour Drawings, 1891, no. 10.
Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, Watercolour Drawings, 1891, no. 10.
London, Agnew's, Selected Water-colour Drawings by Artists of the Early English School, 1919, no. 42.
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Drawings by John Robert Cozens, 1922-3, no. 19.
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of British Art, c.1000-1860, 1934, no. 704.
Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, Water-Colour Drawings by J.R. Cozens and J.S. Cotman, 1937, no. 65.
Norwich, Castle Museum, A Selection of English Watercolours, c.1750-c.1820, 1955, no. 21.
Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery and London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Watercolours by John Robert Cozens, March - May 1971, no. 79.
Special notice
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