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Signed lower right: T.M. Richardson/Senr/1847
Watercolour over traces of pencil heightened with bodycolour and scratching out
47.3 by 77 cm., 18 ½ by 30 ¼ in.

Provenance: With Appleby Brothers, London; With Thos Agnew & Sons Ltd (no.23640); Private Collection since 2006

Richardson Senior was referred to during his lifetime as ’The Father of the Fine Arts in Newcastle’ He succeeded his father as Master of St Andrew’s Charity School, Newcastle in 1806, while also working as a drawing master. In 1813 he resigned to devote himself to art alone and organised many of the earliest art exhibitions in Newcastle. He remained in Newcastle all his life but travelled and exhibited widely, mostly British topographical views. Interestingly his depiction of Conwy Castle looking north up the estuary of the Conwy river does not show Telford’s suspension bridge across the river which was built in 1822-26. The catalyst for this picture which dates from 1847 may have been the construction of the railway bridge, next to Telford’s bridge, which began in 1846.
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Signed lower right: TR 1837

Watercolour heightened with bodycolour and scratching out

21.4 by 30.7 cm., 8 ¼ by 12 in.
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Inscribed lower left: near Newcastle - Tyne

coloured chalks and pencil heightened with white on brown paper

24.1 x 36.4cm., 9 ? x 14 ? inches

This is a view of the centre of Newcastle looking east from the north bank of the Tyne. The bridge shown is the old Tyne Bridge which was built in stone in 1781 and destroyed in1866 to make way for the Swing Bridge which opened in 1876. The High Level Bridge, which still stands today, was built by Stephenson this side of the old Tyne Bridge between 1847 and 1849. To the left the spire of All Saints Church on Akenside Hill is visible.

Provenance:

Humphrey Whitbread (1912-2000)
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Inscribed lower right: The Belfry/St. Agatha?s Abbey/1836

brown washes over pencil heightened with bodycolour on buff paper

34.9 x 26.2cm., 13 ? x 10 ? inches

The Abbey of St. Agatha is part of Easby Abbey which stands on the eastern bank of the River Swale just outside Richmond, North Yorkshire.

Provenance:

Humphrey Whitbread (1912-2000)
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Pencil and watercolour heightened with white, on grey paper

18.1 x 22.9 cm., 7 1/8 x 9 ins.
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Pencil, white chalk and watercolour, on grey paper

16.8 x 27.5 cm., 6 5/8 x 10 7/8 ins.

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Inscribed ?Dumfrieshire Caerlavercok Castle?, pencil and watercolour

17.1 x 26.8 cm., 6 3/4 x 10 1/2 ins.

Caerlaverock Castle stands on the north shore of the Solway Firth, five miles south-east of Dumfries. It was built in the 13th century and was the home of the Maxwell family until it was partly destroyed in the siege of 1640.
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Signed and inscribed on the reverse, pencil and watercolour

19.4 x 29 cm., 7 5/8 x 11 3/8 ins.
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Signed and inscribed on the reverse, pencil and watercolour

18 x 27.6 cm., 7 x 10 7/8 ins.

This composition relates exactly to the engraving of Thirlwall Castle published in the two-volume Border Antiquities of England and Scotland (1812-15). Thirlwall Castle was engraved by J. Grieg after Luke Clennell and was published on 1 Nov. 1814, appearing in Volume II opposite page 114. The castle stands just north of the line of Hadrian?s Wall, which provided the masonry for its construction in the early 14thcentury.
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Inscribed on the reverse ?Kirk of the old Colledge Aberdeen?,

Pencil and watercolour

19 x 29.5 cm., 7 3/8 x 11 5/8 ins.

King?s College was an independent university founded in 1495 and now part of the University of Aberdeen. The chapel, with its crown tower, is the oldest part of the university.
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Watercolour

8.5 x 15.3 cm., 3 3/8 x 6 ins.
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Pencil and watercolour, watermark [WHA]TMAN / [cut]0

13.1 x 22.4 cm., 5 1/8 x 8 3/4 ins.

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Inscribed with colour notes, pencil and watercolour with touches of white heightening, on grey paper

19.4 x 27.6 cm., 7 5/8 x 10 7/8 ins.
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Inscribed as title, pencil and watercolour, watermark EGLIN ROBERTS & CO. / 1828

28.8 x 21.4 cm., 11 1/4 x 8 3/8 ins.
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Pencil and watercolour

7.5 x 11.7 cm., 2 7/8 x 4 1/2 ins.
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Pencil and watercolour

19.4 x 30.8 cm., 7 5/8 x 12 1/8 ins.
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Pencil and watercolour heightened with white, on grey paper

21.8 x 26.7 cm., 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 ins.
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Pencil and watercolour

19.5 x 27.8 cm., 7 5/8 x 10 7/8 ins.

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Inscribed with notes, pencil and watercolour

18.7 x 28.4 cm., 7 3/8 x 11 1/8 ins.
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Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour

16.8 by 28.3 cm., 6 ? by 11 inches
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Signed lower left: TR 1836

Watercolour heightened with bodcolour, scratching out and gum arabic

20 by 33.6 cm., 9 by 13 ¼ inches

Robin Hood’s Bay is five miles south of Whitby on the North Yorkshire coast.
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Signed lower left: Conway Castle/T.M. Richardson
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour, scratching out and gum arabic

30.6 by 48.8 cm., 12 by 19 inches

Provenance:

John Naylor (1813-1889) of Leighton Hall, Welshpool;

By descent until 2013

This is a view of Conway Castle from the east. It shows the suspension bridge which was built by Thomas Telford in 1826 and replaced the ferry crossing.
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Signed lower right: TM Richardson Snr/1843

Watercolour heightened with bodycolour and scratching out

22.5 by 30.8 cm, 9 by 12 ¼ inches

Richardson Senior was referred to as `The Father of Fine Arts in Newcastle' during his lifetime. Having been apprenticed to a cabinet maker, he gave it up to succeed his father as master of St. Andrew's Charity School in Newcastle in 1806. He started working as a drawing master during this period and gave up teaching to devote himself to art in 1813. In 1822 he helped set up the Northumberland Institution for the Promotion of Fine Arts and its success led to the Northern Academy of Arts in Newcastle in 1828. The present late work is likely to be a view taken in the north-east of England.
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Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour and scratching out on buff paper

236 x 332 mm., 9 ½ x 13 in.

Provenance:

By descent from the artist to his daughter Mrs Younghusband;

Mrs N.G. Clayton of Humshaugh, Northumberland, 1906

Exhibited:

Newcastle, Laing Art Gallery, Special Loan Collection of works by T.M. Richardson Senr, 1906, no. 186

Richardson Senior was referred to as `The Father of Fine Arts in Newcastle' during his lifetime. Having been apprenticed to a cabinet maker, he gave it up to succeed his father as master of St. Andrew's Charity School in Newcastle in 1806. He started working as a drawing master during this period and gave up teaching to devote himself to art in 1813. In 1822 he helped set up the Northumberland Institution for the Promotion of Fine Arts and its success led to the Northern Academy of Arts in Newcastle in 1828.

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Watercolour heightened with bodycolour and scratching out

217 x 308 mm., 8 1/2 x 12 in.

This may be a view of Harlech Castle, North Wales.

Thumbnail panels:

Thomas Miles Richardson, Snr. 1784-1848

Richardson was born in Newcastle and spent all his life in the city. He was apprenticed to an engraver and in 1806 he succeeded his father as master of St Andrew?s Grammar School. He gave this up in 1813 to concentrate on drawing and exhibited in London and elsewhere from 1818. His son Thomas Miles Richardson Junior (1813-1890) was also a successful artist.