Landscape, after Francis Towne

Description

Creator: Unidentified circle of Towne

Title(s)

Landscape, after Francis Towne

Date: No date

Medium: Pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour

Dimensions

image height 240mm,
image width 186mm

Support: laid paper, watermark “JW” with a Strasburg Lily

Object Type: Watercolour

Catalogue Number: FT840

Description Sources: Examination; Sotheby's (image)

Provenance

Untraced until sold at Sotheby’s on 22 April 1959, lot 33, as by John White Abbott, to Walker’s Galleries. In 1959 Walker’s sold the drawing to Walter Augustus Brandt (1902–1978), whose descendants offered it for sale at Sotheby’s on 7–8 July 2011, lot 205, as by Francis Towne.

Associated People & Organisations: Private Collection, 7 July 2011; Sotheby's, London, London, 7 August 2011
lot 205; Walter Augustus Brandt (1902 - 1978), 1959; Walker's Galleries, London, 22 April 1959; Sotheby's, London, London, 22 April 1959
lot 33

Exhibition History: Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from a Private Collection [the collection of Walter Augustus Brandt (1902-1978)], Fitzwilliam Museum, 1971, no. 1 as by John White Abbott

Comment

This seems to be an imaginary Italianate landscape study drawn by an unknown pupil, and based on a source drawing that Towne himself made for the purpose (FT847a, now lost) since another version of the same composition survives in Miss Maingey’s album (FT847). It was doubtless given to a pupil to copy at an early stage of tuition.

by Richard Stephens

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