16th Jul, 2022 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European and Sporting Art
1002
Francis Nicholson POWS (1753-1844)
"The Dropping Rock at Knaresborough"
Signed and inscribed with artist's address verso (according to label verso), mixed media with scratching out, 28.5cm by 40cm
Provenance: The Fine Art Society Ltd., London
Born at Pickering in 1753, Nicholson settled at Whitby in 1783. In 1792 he went to Knaresborough, Ripon and finally settled in London. Nicholson exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1789. In 1804 he became one of the original members of the Watercolour Society. In later years he devoted himself to lithography. In 1820 he published "The Practice of Drawing and Painting Landscape from Nature".
He was noted for the introduction in his landscapes of the device of stopping out the watercolour, which Turner also employed on occasion.
There is a similar but larger watercolour of the same view by Nicholson dated 1803 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in the same year. Works of the same name were also exhibited at the Old Watercolour Society (Society of Painters in Watercolour) in 1807 (£21-0-0, bought by the Rev. Dr. Beeke, Ufton, Berks) and in 1809 (£3-3-0, bought by W. R. Stokes) and in 1811, bought for (£26-5-0)
Sold for £650
Estimated at £700 - £1,000
In a broadly fair to good state of preservation. Moderate to fairly pronounced staining across the sheet. Condensed tiny sized spots of foxing, most evident within the sky but not exclusively. Colour depth fairly good although tempered by time staining across sheet. No evidence of cockling. Not examined out of the frame.
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Auction: British, European and Sporting Art, 16th Jul, 2022
'In a Ligurian Garden', an important lost work by Henry Herbert La Thangue, is to be sold in the British, European and Sporting Art Sale on 16th July with an estimate of £70,000-100,000 plus buyer's premium. The painting was recently rediscovered in Yorkshire, having been passed down through the family of Sir William Prince-Smith (1898-1964) and his wife Marjorie, manufacturers of textile machinery from Keighley, West Yorkshire. View lot
Henry Herbert La Thangue RA (1859-1929) was one of the leading exponents of British Impressionism, who had become enamoured with painting 'en plein air' on a youthful painting trip to Brittany in 1881 with friend and fellow artist Stanhope Forbes, one of the founders of the Newlyn School of Painters. On his return to England he settled in Sussex, painting farm labourers in idyllic, rustic surroundings, recording a way of English rural life that was fast being lost to increasing industrialisation.
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