John “Warwick” Smith (1748-1831) [Aw598]
THE FOOT OF MOUNT SPLUGEN NEAR CHIAVENNA, 1781/82
Pen and grey ink and watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of body colour; inscribed by the artist on verso: Foot of Mount Splugen, near Chiavenna – Light from Right, Morning (H. 36cm, W. 26cm)
Exhibited: Bootle Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Early English Watercolours from the Collection of Mr B.N. Williams, 1963, no. 57
Literature: Huon Mallalieu, The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1979), vol. 2, p. 527
Provenance: Possibly the Merivale family; Squire Galley, London; The Fine Art Society, 1946-47; with Bryan G. Hamilton, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Appleby Bros., London, April 1959; with Boydell Galleries, Liverpool; Bertram Williams, Formby, Liverpool, 1961; Bertram Nowell Smith, his sale, Christie’s, November 1973, lot 211; purchased by Adam Crick (1957-2016) from Guy Peppiatt, London, 2011; bequest of Adam Crick to Winchester College, 2016