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Signed lower right

Watercolour heightened with bodycolour 

23.3 by 34 cm., 9 by 13 ? inches

 

This is a view of the old wooden pier at Newhaven, one of two on either side of the River Ouse.  They created what was once considered one of the safest harbours on the south coast of England during the eighteenth century.

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Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour
23.2 by 35cm., 9 by 13 3/4 inches

Provenance:
R.S. Fairburn;
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's 12th March 1987, lot 31

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Watercolour over traces of pencil

15.2 by 46.3cm., 6 by 18 ? inches

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Watercolour over traces of pencil heightened with bodycolour

17.4 x 47.9 cm., 6 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches

 

This shows the lighthouse at Scarborough which was built in 1806 by a surveyor called Nixon on Vincent Pier built 1752. Unusually for a busy port, there is a no record of a lighthouse at Scarborough prior to this date. In December 1914, the town of Scarborough came under fire from two German battlecruisers and the last shell they fired landed directly on the lighthouse destroying it. The replacement and present lighthouse was officially opened in 1931.

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Watercolour over traces of pencil heightened with scratching out

26.7 x 44.5 cm., 10 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches

 

Provenance:

With Ackermann & Johnson, London;

Anonymous sale, Sotheby?s 12th April 1995, lot 143

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Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour, stopping out and scratching out

27.4 by 41.8 cm., 10 ? by 16 ? inches

 

Provenance:

with Martyn Gregory, London;

Anonymous sale, Sotheby?s, 20th November 1986, lot 158;

Private Collector, East Anglia;

Anonymous sale, Bonham?s, Leeds, 8th November 2006, lot 151;

Private collection, U.K.

 

Literature:

Huon Mallalieu, The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920, vol. II, 1979, p.311 as ?Dover Castle?

 

Exhibited:

Possibly London, Royal Academy, 1869, no.553, ?Scarborough Castle?

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Watercolour over traces of pencil 

16.2 x 25.7 cm., 6 ? x 10 in.

 

Provenance:

Appleby Bros., London

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Inscribed verso: Moonrise  and in another hand: by W Beverly

Watercolour heightened with stopping out 

14.6 x 25.5 cm., 5 ? x 10 in.

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Watercolour heightened with bodycolour, stopping out and scratching out

65.7 x 92.7 cm., 25 ? x 36 ? in.

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Signed with initials lower left: Scrbro' coast W.R.B.

Watercolour heightened with scratching out

14.2 by 23.1 cm., 5 ½ by 9 in.