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Signed lower right: T.M. Richardson/Senr/1847Watercolour over traces of pencil heightened with bodycolour and scratching out47.3 by 77 cm., 18 ½ by 30 ¼ in.Provenance: With Appleby Brothers, London; With Thos Agnew & Sons Ltd (no.23640); Private Collection since 2006Richardson 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.
Price on requestSigned lower right: TR 1837
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour and scratching out
21.4 by 30.7 cm., 8 ¼ by 12 in.
Sold 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.
Sold Inscribed lower left: near
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
Provenance:
Humphrey Whitbread (1912-2000)
Sold 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
Provenance:
Humphrey Whitbread (1912-2000)
Sold Pencil and watercolour heightened with white, on grey paper
18.1 x 22.9 cm., 7 1/8 x 9 ins.
Sold Pencil, white chalk and watercolour, on grey paper
16.8 x 27.5 cm., 6 5/8 x 10 7/8 ins.
Sold 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 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.
Sold Signed and inscribed on the reverse, pencil and watercolour
19.4 x 29 cm., 7 5/8 x 11 3/8 ins.
Sold 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 14th century.
Sold 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.
Sold Watercolour
8.5 x 15.3 cm., 3 3/8 x 6 ins.
Sold Pencil and watercolour, watermark [WHA]TMAN / [cut]0
13.1 x 22.4 cm., 5 1/8 x 8 3/4 ins.
Sold 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.
Sold 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.
Sold Pencil and watercolour
7.5 x 11.7 cm., 2 7/8 x 4 1/2 ins.
Sold Pencil and watercolour
19.4 x 30.8 cm., 7 5/8 x 12 1/8 ins.
Sold Pencil and watercolour heightened with white, on grey paper
21.8 x 26.7 cm., 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 ins.
Sold Pencil and watercolour
19.5 x 27.8 cm., 7 5/8 x 10 7/8 ins.
Sold Inscribed with notes, pencil and watercolour
18.7 x 28.4 cm., 7 3/8 x 11 1/8 ins.
Sold 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.
Sold 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.
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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: Conway Castle/T.M. RichardsonWatercolour 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.
