Peter de Wint

Watercolour on laid paper, with exhibition label attached to backboard
15 x 32.5 cm.; 6 x 12 3⁄4 inches

Provenance
Miss Bostock, companion to Miss H.H. Tatlock, the artist’s granddaughter;
Christie’s, 12 September 1941, lot 29;
Where purchased by Thomas Agnew & Son Ltd., London;
Sold to a private collector 18 May 1942;
Private collection, Wiltshire until 2023

Exhibited
Usher Art Gallery Lincoln, Peter De Wint Exhibition, 1937, no. 146

Horsemen can be seen in the foreground of this freely drawn, spare landscape, which exemplifies Peter de Wint’s brilliance and delicacy in the laying of washes.