Vessels on the Shore at Southampton
Vessels on the Shore at Southampton
Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787-1855)
Vessels on the Shore at Southampton
Signed lower right: Copley Fielding and signed verso: Vefsels on the Shore at Southampton Copley Fielding/1833
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour, gum arabic and scratching out
25.7 by 36.3 cm., 10 ¼ by 14 ½ in.
Provenance:
John Lewis Brown (d.1836);
With Leger Galleries, London, 1954
Exhibited:
London, Society of Painters in Water-colours, 1833, no.321, bought J.L. Brown
This watercolour was bought at the Old Watercolour Society by John Lewis Brown (d.1836), a Bordeaux wine merchant and an important collector of Bonington's work. Four auctions of his collection took place between 1835 and 1843.