Lot 420 , Edward Duncan (1803-1882) View of Spithead from the Isle of Wight 17.5 x 35.25in.

Edward Duncan (1803-1882)
watercolour
View of Spithead from the Isle of Wight Exhibited Old Watercolour Society 1857 No.169, commented on in The Illustrated London News 1857
signed and dated 1857
17.5 x 35.25in.
Estimate £800-1,200

See ; Illustrated London News, 23 May 1857, page 10. "Mr Duncan is admirably true to nature in View of Spithead from the Isle of Wight (169), and broad and free in execution....
Provenance: Mrs Platt-Higgins, of Thinghill, Hereford. Sold Christie's, London on behalf of the Executors, 22 April 1899, Lot 90. Sold to Arthur Tooth & Sons, 175-176 New Bond Street, London, for 60 guineas.
Exhibited: 'Rummage to you Heart's Content ', Royal Worcester Society, Bankside |Gallery, London, 10-28 January, 1996
Illustrated in The Garden Isle: Landscape Paintings of the Isle of Wight 1790-1920 by Robin McInnes (1990), full-page colour plate 16 (page 41).
Illustrated in colour in British Coastal Art 1770-1930 by Robin McInnes, OBE (2014), page 117

Watercolour on paper which is showing some undulation therefore not laid down and slightly springing away from the giltwood mount, a number of scattered dark marks particularly on the left, probably a little faded but still retaining good strength of colour, signed and dated lower right, housed in what looks to be the original gilt gesso frame which has suffered numerous small losses, Arthur Tooth & Sons label verso along with other typed details of the work.


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Sold for £900