The Golden Eagle Tavern
The Golden Eagle Tavern
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The Golden Eagle TavernWatercolour over traces of pencilProvenance:Anonymous sale, Christie's, 18th November 1980, lot 17 (one of a pair, the other dated 1791);With Spinks, London, 1983;Private Collection until 2014Samuel exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1786 and 1823 and worked both in oil and watercolour. He was killed when an old wall collapsed on him while he was sketching.Stylistically this watercolour relates to a view of Hay Castle by Samuel, signed and dated 1793, in Nottingham Castle Museum){kind=link}
George Samuel (d.1823)
The Golden Eagle Tavern
Watercolour over traces of pencil
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Christie's, 18th November 1980, lot 17 (one of a pair, the other dated 1791);
With Spinks, London, 1983;
Private Collection until 2014
Samuel exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1786 and 1823 and worked both in oil and watercolour. He was killed when an old wall collapsed on him while he was sketching.
Stylistically this watercolour relates to a view of Hay Castle by Samuel, signed and dated 1793, in Nottingham Castle Museum
Dimensions:
Height
21.4 cm / 8 1⁄2"
Width
28.7 cm
/ 11 1⁄2"