A River landscape with Hills beyond

A River landscape with Hills beyond

Category
Reference

2900

Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (1784 - 1849)
A River landscape with Hills beyond

Watercolour over pencil heightened with scratching out
38 by 58cm., 15 by 22 ¾ in.

Provenance:
Robert, 2nd Baron Brocket (1904-1967);
Miss F. Nightingale;
with Thomas Agnew's, London;
by whom sold to John Giles Pilcher (d. 1982), by 1966;
By descent

Exhibited:
London, Agnew's, Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Peter de Wint, 1966, no. 109, as 'Landscape'

This may be a view on the river Eden in Cumbria with the Pennine hills beyond. The building in the middle distance could be Brough Castle. De Wint exhibited `View on the River Eden, near Kirk Oswald' at the Society of Painters in Water-colours in 1839, no.283.