Peter De Wint, O.W.S.
A stream in the Welsh Mountains near the Snowdon range
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Peter De Wint, O.W.S.
(Stone, Staffordshire 1784 - 1849 London)
A stream in the Welsh Mountains near the Snowdon range
Watercolor over pencil with scratching out;
bears numbering in pencil, lower left: 69
347 by 537 mm; 13⅝ by 21⅛ in.
The artist's estate sale, London, Christie's, 27 May 1850, lot 371 (2¼ gns to Smith);
probably Samuel Pasfield Oliver (1838-1907);
sale, London, Christie's, 18 April 1887, lot 49 (4½ gns to Peel);
with Agnew's, London,
where acquired by Nina R. (1937-2020) and Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. (1906-1990),
their estate sale and others, London, Christie's, 6 July 2021, lot 105,
where acquired
Peter de Wint was among the most innovative British watercolor painters of the 19th century, ranking alongside John Constable for his fresh and fluent response to nature.1 The present sheet, which likely dates to the early 1830s and is notable for its fine state of preservation, perhaps goes some way to explaining why the art historian Martin Hardie described De Wint as one of the few who could make colors sing.2
1.Indeed Constable is known to have admired de Wint and acquired a watercolor by him in 1827 (see M. Hardie, Water-Colour Painting in Britain, London 1967, p. 218)
2.Hardie, op. cit, p. 221
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