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British Drawings and Watercolours 2017 Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Cover 2017 v2.qxp_18565 GP Covers Summer Catalogue FINAL 25/04/2017 15:03 Page 1 BRITISH DRAWINGS AND 2017 WATERCOLOURS BRITISH DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS 2017 GUY PEPPIATT FINE ART FINE PEPPIATT GUY GUY PEPPIATT FINE ART LTD Riverwide House, 6 Mason’s Yard Duke Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6BU GUY PEPPIATT FINE ART GPFA Summer 2017 v1.qxp_Layout 1 25/04/2017 15:25 Page 1 BRITISH DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS 2017 1 GPFA Summer 2017 v1.qxp_Layout 1 25/04/2017 15:25 Page 2 Guy Peppiatt started his working life at Dulwich Picture Gallery before joining Sotheby’s British Pictures department in 1993. He soon specialised in early British drawings and watercolours and took over the running of Sotheby’s Topographical sales. Topographical views whether they be of Britain or worldwide have remained an abiding passion. Guy left Sotheby’s in early 2004 and has worked as a dealer since then, first based at home, and now in his gallery on Mason’s Yard, St James’s, shared with the Old Master and European Drawings dealer Stephen Ongpin. He advises clients and museums on their collections, buys and sells on their behalf and can provide insurance valuations. Guy Peppiatt Fine Art exhibit at a number of London fairs and are also part of Master Drawings New York every January. Guy also vets a number of art fairs and is Chairman of the Vetting Committee for the Works on Paper Fair. 2 GPFA Summer 2017 v1.qxp_Layout 1 25/04/2017 15:25 Page 3 BRITISH DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS 2017 Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm Weekends and evenings by appointment Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Ltd Riverwide House, 6 Mason’s Yard Duke Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6BU Tel: +44 (0) 20 7930 3839 Mobile: +44 (0) 7956 968284 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7839 1504 [email protected] www.peppiattfineart.co.uk 3 GPFA Summer 2017 v1.qxp_Layout 1 25/04/2017 15:25 Page 4 1 William Taverner (1700-1772) An Italianate Landscape Watercolour over pencil heightened with white on two sheets of laid paper joined a wonderfull genius to drawing of Landskip in an excellent manner, adorned with 14.2 by 40.2 cm., 5 ½ by 15 ¾ in. figures in a stile above the common’ (George Vertue, ‘The Notebooks of George Vertue’, Walpole Society, vol. 3, p.68). According to Martin Hardie, he was ‘our first Provenance: regular and systematic painter of free landscapes in watercolour’ (Martin Hardie, With Thos. Agnews, London, 1984 Water-colour Painting in Britain, 1966, vol. I, p.69). Exhibited: The majority of his works are of imaginary Italianate compositions in the manner of London, Thos. Agnew & Sons, 111th Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, Claude and Poussin although he appears never to have visited Italy. He was one of 23rd January-24th February 1984, no. 6 the earliest exponents of the combination of watercolour and bodycolour as the lead white bodycolour on the present drawing indicates. A number of his works are Taverner was a lawyer by profession, inheriting his father’s position as Procurator- in the same panoramic format. A drawing from the Oppé collection in the Tate General of the Court of Arches of Canterbury, based in Bow Church, London, but Gallery measures 7 ½ by 18 inches and is also on two sheets of paper (see Anne he was also a highly skilled artist. The engraver George Vertue records in one of his Lyles and Robin Hamlyn, British Watercolours from the Oppé Collection, 1997, p.50, notebooks in 1733: ‘Mr Taverner about Aeta 30 (beside his practice in the Law) has no.7, ill. p.51). 4 GPFA Summer 2017 v1.qxp_Layout 1 25/04/2017 15:25 Page 5 2 Attributed to Charles Grignion (1721-1810) Study of a Woman Black and white chalk on blue laid paper 39.3 by 26.5 cm., 15 ½ by 10 ½ in. Provenance: The Estate of Vivienne Haskell, the wife of the ballet critic Arnold Haskell (1903-1980) This relates closely in style to a portrait by Charles Grignion of the artist’s brother Thomas drawn in 1737 which is in the British Museum (BM 1890,0512,94). This drawing is likely to have been executed at the St Martin’s Lane Academy which was set up by William Hogarth in 1735. The premises were a room on St Peter’s Court off St Martin’s Lane where members would meet to draw from a life model. Members including the engraver Gravelot, the sculptor Roubiliac, the artist Francis Hayman and the young Gainsborough who was employed by Gravelot at the time. St Martin’s Lane Academy drawings are usually drawn on a blue or buff sheet and are of similar size. Two drawings of a similar woman by Gravelot, of the same size and on buff paper, are in the Ashmolean Museum (WA1863.100 and 101). Born in Covent Garden to foreign probably French Huguenot parents, Grignion studied at the St Martin’s Lane Academy as a young man. He was employed by Hogarth as an engraver on his four Election pictures amongst others and also by Gravelot. In the 1770s, he worked for Thomas Stothard but his style began to feel old-fashioned and he was superseded by younger engravers. We are grateful to Hugh Belsey for his comments on this drawing. 5 GPFA Summer 2017 v1.qxp_Layout 1 25/04/2017 15:25 Page 6 3 Paul Sandby, R.A. (1731-1809) Page’s Farm, Easton Park, Essex Watercolour and bodycolour over pencil This is one of two pictures of this size exhibited by Sandby at the British Institution in 20.0 by 27.4 cm., 7 ¾ by 10 ¾ in. 1808 entitled ‘Part of Page’s Farm, near Easton Park, Essex’ (no.271) or ‘Page’s Farm, Easton Park, Essex, from the West.’ Views of the Keeper’s Lodge, Easton Park are in The manor and estates of Little Easton, later Easton Park, were granted to Henry the Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce 746) and the British Museum (1904,0819.23), Maynard, Lord Burleigh’s private secretary in 1590. He was knighted in 1603. The which also has a ‘design for a window blind, Easton Park’, dated 1809. house, Easton |Park, was built in 1597 and burnt down in 1847 when it was rebuilt by Hopper. At the date of the present work, Easton Lodge was in the possession of Exhibited: Charles, Viscount Maynard (1752-1824) who inherited the peerage in 1775 and London, British Institution, 1808, no 271 or 287 succeeded his father as 5th Baronet in 1792. He married but had no children so the estate was inherited by his nephew. Sold with a drawing of the same subject: The house later achieved notoriety as the home of Daisy Maynard who married Francis Greville, later Earl of Warwick, in 1881. She was famous as a socialite who had Paul Sandby, R.A. (1730-1809) several affairs with powerful men including Edward VII and was the inspiration for the Entrance into Easton Park music hall song ‘Daisy Daisy’. On the death of Edward VII, she tried to blackmail his son, the new king George V with letters written by his father but she was Inscribed lower centre: Entrance into Easton Park from Dunmow? outmanoeuvred by Lord Staffordham and died virtually penniless. Pencil on laid paper 12.8 by 22.9 cm., 5 ¼ by 9 ¼ in. Although her main residence was Warwick Castle, she retained Easton Lodge and created lavish gardens and a private zoo at the house. Much of the Estate was sold off Provenance: in the 1890s and again in 1919 and 1920. 1500 acres of woodland and farmland Admiral Sir James Hawkins-Whiteshed (1762-1849) remained in the Maynard family until it was sold to Land Securities plc in 2004. 6 GPFA Summer 2017 v1.qxp_Layout 1 25/04/2017 15:25 Page 7 7 GPFA Summer 2017 v1.qxp_Layout 1 25/04/2017 15:25 Page 8 4 John White Abbott (1763-1851) Chudleigh Rock on the Teign, Devon Inscribed verso: Chudleigh Sept. 2. 1799 sketching tour outside the south-west of England was to the Lake District and Scotland Pen and black ink and watercolour in 1791 (see no.6). In 1825, he inherited an estate near Exeter to which he retired. 16.1 by 24.7 cm., 6 ½ by 9 ¾ in. Chudleigh is a town on the river Teign fourteen miles south-west of Exeter. Chudleigh Provenance: Rock was a popular beauty spot near Ugbrooke Park, the home of the Clifford family. By descent from the artist until sold at Sotheby’s, 21st March 2002, lot 155 Towne also drew Chudleigh Rock, in 1787. A study of undergrowth at Chudleigh by White Abbott dated 21st September 1798 was sold at Christie’s on 5th June 2007, lot White Abbott was a friend and pupil of Francis Towne (1740-1816) and worked as a 2 for £6,600 and a view of Chudleigh Rock by him dated 14th August 1792 was sold surgeon in his home town of Exeter. Most of his landscapes are Devon views and he there on 14th November 1972, lot 97. exhibited at the Royal Academy but never sold a work in his lifetime. His only 8 GPFA Summer 2017 v1.qxp_Layout 1 25/04/2017 15:26 Page 9 5 John White Abbott (1763-1851) Near Stapleton, Bristol Inscribed verso: near Stapleton Aug.t 10. 94. Stapleton is a hilly area to the north-east of the centre of Bristol and was a popular Pen and grey ink and watercolour on laid paper sketching ground for Bristol artists.
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