Vessels on the Shore at Southampton

Vessels on the Shore at Southampton

Sold

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.