JOHN MITCHELL FINE PAINTINGS EST 1931 Charles-Henri Contencin 8, 26, 28, 34 Johann Gottfried Steffan 22 Edward Harrison Compton 10, 31 Edward Theodore Compton 24 Max Märtens 11 Alexandre Calame 25 Jacques Fourcy 12 Georges Tairraz 27, 40 Gabriel Loppé 14, 15, 18 Wilhelm Friedrich Burger 30, 42 Georg Macco 16 Emile Gos 32 Ernst Emil Schlatter 20 Marcel Ichac 33 Otto Baumberger 37 Gustave Eugène Castan 38 Florentin Charnaux 39 Michael Zeno Diemer 41 Peaks & Glaciers 2015 Tuesday 27 January until Thursday 12 March 2015 Monday to Friday, 10am-5.30pm Saturday 12-5pm at John Mitchell Fine Paintings 44 Old Bond Street, London W1S 4GB All paintings, drawings and prints are for sale unless otherwise stated Catalogue compiled by William Mitchell Please contact William Mitchell on 020 7493 7567
[email protected] www.johnmitchell.net 2 3 I am delighted to be sending out this year’s annual catalogue which accompanies our exhibition of Alpine paintings and drawings from the early 1840s to the present day. I hope it will bring readers the same pleasure that I derive from sourcing and researching the pictures in it. Having put together fourteen of these exhibitions since 2001, I am all too aware of the need to keep finding a consistently interesting, relevant and appealing array of works to offer collectors each winter. However, the priority remains the same: to exhibit topographically accurate and accomplished pictures. With that in mind, I include where possible the finest work of the aptly-named, peintres- alpinistes, climbers who were gifted amateur artists or those painters drawn by their own artistic muse ever higher up on to the glaciers and mountains searching for a dramatic landscape.