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PAUL SANDBY R.A.

(1731 -1809)

Eton College from the River Thames

Eton College from the River Thames
Signed and dated ‘P.Sandby 1779’, on Whatman paper
Pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour on Whatman paper
12 ¼ x 19 ¼ inches (31.2 x 48.5cm)
Acquired by a Private Collector, USA

Provenance

Cuthbert Dawnay

Fine Art Society, May, 1951, no.50

Sir Oliver Millar

Private Collection, UK

 

This work is probably the most developed of a series of views of Eton College seen across the Thames from Windsor, the only exception being a still larger work in gouache of c. 1790 (Niveson loan to Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, 21 1/8 x 30½in., exhibited Royal Academy, London and National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880, January-July 1993, no. 256, repr. in colour pl. 51; sold Christie's 9 December 1949, lot 31). This last is the only one of the group to include a tree on the left. The other versions, all smaller in size, show variations in the shipping and foreground figures; one example is dated 1768 on the reverse (15 1/8 x 21½in., sold Sotheby's 14 March 1962, lot 43, repr.). Two further examples show much the same view, but with a perspective of the buildings on the Windsor shore leading away on the right.

This group of works, like other views of Eton, was a product of Sandby's years of intense activity in and around Windsor Castle in the 1760s and 1770s 

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