Stolzenfels Castle on the Rhine, Germany
Stolzenfels Castle on the Rhine, Germany
Stolzenfels Castle on the Rhine, GermanySigned with initials lower left and inscribed by artist verso: No 5/StolzenfelsWatercolour over traces of pencil25.9 by 36.3 cm., 10 1/4 by 14 1/2 in.Provenance:with Thos. Agnew & Sons, LondonStanding on the left bank of the Rhine near Koblenz, Stolzenfels Castle, dating originally from the13th century, was rebuilt by Frederick William IV of Prussia in the 1830s.Callow first visited the Rhine in 1844 and his first exhibited view of Stolzenfels dates from 1864. A view of Stolzenfels by Callow was included in an album presented by the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours to Queen Victoria in 1887 (see Jan Reynolds, William Callow, 1980, pl. 98, ill.).){kind=link}
William Callow, R.W.S. (1812-1908)
Stolzenfels Castle on the Rhine, Germany
Signed with initials lower left and inscribed by artist verso: No 5/Stolzenfels
Watercolour over traces of pencil
25.9 by 36.3 cm., 10 1/4 by 14 1/2 in.
Provenance:
with Thos. Agnew & Sons, London
Standing on the left bank of the Rhine near Koblenz, Stolzenfels Castle, dating originally from the13th century, was rebuilt by Frederick William IV of Prussia in the 1830s.
Callow first visited the Rhine in 1844 and his first exhibited view of Stolzenfels dates from 1864. A view of Stolzenfels by Callow was included in an album presented by the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours to Queen Victoria in 1887 (see Jan Reynolds, William Callow, 1980, pl. 98, ill.).
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