Watercolour; signed lower right: S. Atkins; inscribed on back of mount with collector’s mark of Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram: Mr Atkins Teacher of Marine Drawing & colouring (H. 28cm, W. 39cm)
Provenance: Sir Bruce Ingram; with Frank Sabin; Major-General Sir John D’Arcy Anderson and Lady Elizabeth Anderson, by whom given to [...]
Pencil heightened with white, on buff paper. Partial faint pencil sketch of townscape on reverse. Numbered upper left: 70. Formerly titled in error below on mount: Chateau on the Lake of Zurich (H. 12 cm, W. 19 cm)
Literature: Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, the Complete Paintings (Yale, 2008), p. 51, fig. 59; Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes [...]
John White Abbott (1763-1851), after Francis Towne (1739-1816) [Aw599]
VIEW OF ISOLA BELLA, LAGO MAGGIORE, c. 1816
Pen and ink wash; inscribed by the artist on the reverse: Lavano with Isola Bella on the left/ …can Islands. Morning light from the left [part of the inscription is cut off where it continued from another sheet] (H. 24 cm, W. 34 cm)
John White Abbott was an apothecary and surgeon from Exeter who was also a talented amateur artist. Most of his drawings are Devon [...]
Watercolour, artist’s black line border on sheet; Inscribed below on mount in artist’s hand: Highland Cottages in the Isle of Mull; Reverse, a waterfall: pencil and brown wash, inscribed lower left: Cascade in a T (?) Hermitage Tummell (H. 14.6cm, W. 22.9cm)
Provenance: With Cyril Fry, London, May 1963; Major-General Sir John D’Arcy Anderson and Lady Elizabeth Anderson, by whom given to [...]