£3,000 - £5,000
SAMUEL PALMER, RWS, 1805 - 1881, DRAWING, WATERCOLOUR AND WASH BROWN PAPER, 1831 - 1832
Titled ‘Bright Cloud, Shepherd and Windmill’
Provenance:
Collection of Samuel Palmer;
Mrs Samuel Palmer;
Mrs Bryan Hook (the daughter-in-law of James Clarke Hook (1819-1907), a friend of Palmer;
Miss Una Hook;
Messenger May Baverstock, Godalming, 8th October 1980, lot 402;
Leger Galleries Ltd, London;
Private collection.
Exhibited:
London, V&A, 1926, no. 78, entitled A heath with a shepherd and his flock;
London, Leger Galleries Ltd, English Watercolours, 1980, no. 24.
Literature:
R. Lister, Catalogue Raisonné of the works of Samuel Palmer (Cambridge, 1988), no. 156, p. 88;
G. Grigson, Samuel Palmer: The Visionary Years (1947, London), no. 116, p. 183;
Ex. Cat., Leger Galleries English Watercolours (1980), no. 24.
The present lot was painted in 1832-3 when palmer was living in Shoreham, Kent. According to Lister, it is a study for The bright cloud, a large oil and tempera work on a mahogany panel in the City of Manchester Art Galleries. Bright cloud, shepherd and windmill is one of five known small-scale monochrome studies for The bright cloud.
Condition: good overall
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