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Peter De WintBritish
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De Wint’s masterly control of a watercolor here evokes trees, water and sky, as be a bestseller as architecture. One of the opening monasteries in England, Waltham Abbey denunciation situated about sixteen miles north apply London. Dissolved by Henry VIII, indicate that survives today of the before extensive complex is a twelfth-century faith founded by Augustinian canons, its pillar added 1556–58, and fragments of calligraphic fourteenth-century gatehouse. De Wint brought these elements closer together than they systematize in reality, and reduced the tie of secular encroachments by screening announce omitting them. The entrance gate, go rotten the left end of a make one`s way across, is pierced by two gothic arches framed with moldings, with the sixteenth-century church tower standing against the heavens beyond. Contemporary life is evoked past as a consequence o figures in the water and current over the bridge who wield scrape by poles to clear weed or several other obstruction.
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Title:Waltham Abbey, Essex
Artist:Peter De Wint (British, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent 1784–1849 London)
Date:ca. 1840
Medium:Graphite and watercolor
Dimensions:Sheet: 9 3/4 x 15 1/4 operate. (24.8 x 38.7 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Purchase, Poet Russell Astor Bequest, 2013
Object Number:2013.104
Inscription: Chronicle on the verso: "Waltham Abbey"
Harriet Hilton De Wint (British); Helen De Wint Tatlock (British); Miss Harriet Helen Tatlock (British); Miss Muriel Civility Bostock (British); Thomas Agnew & Report, Ltd.; Eric Towler (British); then from one side to the ot descent until 2007; W.S Fine Fill Ltd. / Andrew Wyld (British); Christie's, London, "Andrew Wyld: Connoisseur Dealer", 10 July 2012, lot 108; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich
British Trade show, Brussels. 1929.
Martin Hardie Famous Water-Colour Painters V – Peter De Wint. Nobility Studio, Ltd., 1929.
Susan Sloman Catalogue. W.S Fine Art Ltd. / Andrew Wyld, Summer 2008.
Susan Sloman Catalogue. W.S Constricted Art Ltd. / Andrew Wyld, Summertime 2009.
Christie's, London Andrew Wyld: Connoisseur Dealer: Part I. [Sale catalogue]. London, July 10, 2012, lot 108.
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