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226 - BRISTOL SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY)THREE MEMBERS OF THE SKETCHING CLUBPencil and watercolour16.5 x 24.5cm (6¼ x 9½in.)Provenance:Martyn Gregory, LondonThe collection of Russell WorbyExhibited:London, Martyn Gregory, British Drawings and Watercolours, Summer 2020, no. 27The present watercolour depicts members of the Bristol Sketching Club on a winter's evening, drawing side by side by lamp light. The Bristol Sketching Club was not a formal institution, but it laid the foundations for the emergence of the Bristol School in around 1820. It appears to have been a gathering of the Bristol friends of the genre painter Edward Bird (1772-1819), such as art collector and writer George Cumberland (1754-1848) who wrote of his friend that 'for some years he was the centre of a society assembled to make drawings in the evening before supper, where the greater number of members were amateurs'.Although an attribution of the present work eludes us, the figureon the right-hand side is likely to be the Bristol artist William James Muller(1812-1847), (cf Francis Greenacre & Sheena Stoddard, W.J. Müller,1812-1845, 1991, p. 169, fig. 13) notable is the thatched hair style and thatthe figure is drawing left-handed. The top-hatted figure might be thewatercolourist and landscape artist William Edward Dighton (1822-1853), of whomonly one image is known, the portrait by his fellow artist Frederick Goodall,c. 1852 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Dighton was a pupil of Mullerand Goodall and travelled to the Near East shortly before his early death. Weare grateful to Francis Greenacre for his help in preparing this catalogueentry.
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BRISTOL SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY)THREE MEMBERS OF THE SKETCHING CLUBPencil and watercolour16.5 x 24.5cm (6¼ x 9½in.)Provenance:Martyn Gregory, LondonThe collection of Russell WorbyExhibited:London, Martyn Gregory, British Drawings and Watercolours, Summer 2020, no. 27The present watercolour depicts members of the Bristol Sketching Club on a winter's evening, drawing side by side by lamp light. The Bristol Sketching Club was not a formal institution, but it laid the foundations for the emergence of the Bristol School in around 1820. It appears to have been a gathering of the Bristol friends of the genre painter Edward Bird (1772-1819), such as art collector and writer George Cumberland (1754-1848) who wrote of his friend that 'for some years he was the centre of a society assembled to make drawings in the evening before supper, where the greater number of members were amateurs'.Although an attribution of the present work eludes us, the figureon the right-hand side is likely to be the Bristol artist William James Muller(1812-1847), (cf Francis Greenacre & Sheena Stoddard, W.J. Müller,1812-1845, 1991, p. 169, fig. 13) notable is the thatched hair style and thatthe figure is drawing left-handed. The top-hatted figure might be thewatercolourist and landscape artist William Edward Dighton (1822-1853), of whomonly one image is known, the portrait by his fellow artist Frederick Goodall,c. 1852 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Dighton was a pupil of Mullerand Goodall and travelled to the Near East shortly before his early death. Weare grateful to Francis Greenacre for his help in preparing this catalogueentry.
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