Figures by a Pond in a Wooded Landscape, probably Leigh Woods
Figures by a Pond in a Wooded Landscape, probably Leigh Woods
Figures by a Pond in a Wooded Landscape, probably Leigh WoodsInscribed lower centre: Mr Eagles 1812 and again lower right: Mr EaglesWatercolour over traces of pencil heightened with stopping out on two sheets of wove paper joined20.1 by 31.7 cm., 8 by 11 ½ in.Provenance:L.G. Duke, C.B.E., his sale, Sotheby's, 16th July 1970, lot 61, bt. Eames;With Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, 2006;Private collection until 2023Eagles was born in Bristol and educated at Winchester and Wadham College, Oxford. After a tour of Italy, he returned to Bristol to be Curate of St. Nicholas Church. The present watercolour dates from that period and is probably a view in Leigh Woods, Bristol, a popular sketching area for the Bristol School artists. A signed watercolour by Eagles inscribed `Leigh Wood June 14 1812' is recorded in the collection of Dr and Mrs John Eagles (see Bristol City Art Gallery, The Bristol School of Artists, exhibition catalogue 1973, no.295). This watercolour shows the influence Eagles's work later had on William James Müller, a fellow Bristol artist (see no. 14). N.N. Solly reports Muller as saying `I have derived immense advantage from Mr Eagles' excellent judgement in line and composition' (see N.N. Solly, Life of W.J. Müller, 1875).){kind=link}
The Rev. John Eagles (1783-1855)
Figures by a Pond in a Wooded Landscape, probably Leigh Woods
Inscribed lower centre: Mr Eagles 1812 and again lower right: Mr Eagles
Watercolour over traces of pencil heightened with stopping out on two sheets of wove paper joined
20.1 by 31.7 cm., 8 by 11 ½ in.
Provenance:
L.G. Duke, C.B.E., his sale, Sotheby's, 16th July 1970, lot 61, bt. Eames;
With Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, 2006;
Private collection until 2023
Eagles was born in Bristol and educated at Winchester and Wadham College, Oxford. After a tour of Italy, he returned to Bristol to be Curate of St. Nicholas Church. The present watercolour dates from that period and is probably a view in Leigh Woods, Bristol, a popular sketching area for the Bristol School artists. A signed watercolour by Eagles inscribed `Leigh Wood June 14 1812' is recorded in the collection of Dr and Mrs John Eagles (see Bristol City Art Gallery, The Bristol School of Artists, exhibition catalogue 1973, no.295). This watercolour shows the influence Eagles's work later had on William James Müller, a fellow Bristol artist (see no. 14). N.N. Solly reports Muller as saying `I have derived immense advantage from Mr Eagles' excellent judgement in line and composition' (see N.N. Solly, Life of W.J. Müller, 1875).