John Frederick Lewis, R.A.

KT475

Dated l.r.: Aug 11, watercolour over pencil with a touch of white on grey paper

17.1 x 26.1 cm.; 6 ¾ x 10 ¼ inches

Provenance
Bernard Squire, Portman Square, London;

Arnold Fellows, collection no. 23;

Bequeathed to Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Walsall until sold by a charitable trust, 2023

Lewis visited Arran in 1830. A similar drawing of identical size dated two days later is in the collection of the Courtauld Institute of Art, The Witt Collection ( D.1952.RW.3018).

Arnold Fellows was a pupil at Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Walsall, between 1911 and 1917. He became a master of the school for a brief period, before moving to spend the remainder of his life as a teacher at Chigwell School in Essex. Fellows devoted much of his life to collecting art, notably works on paper, and eventually donated his entire collection to Queen Mary’s Grammar School.He was the author of The wayfarer's companion : England's history in her buildings and countryside, published by Oxford University Press, 1937.