John Warwick Smith
Lake in North Italy (Lake Como)

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Artist John Warwick SmithBritish, 1749–1831

CultureBritish

Titles

Lake in North Italy (Lake Como)

Datec. 1778

MediumWatercolor over graphite on laid paper

DimensionsSheet: 11 5/16 × 17 1/2 in. (28.8 × 44.4 cm)

Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer

Object number2024.18

Not on view

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceThe artist, c. 1778; George Greville (1746-1816), 2nd Earl of Warwick, c. 1781-1816; by descent to Charles Greville (1911-1984), 7th Earl of Warwick; [probably London, Sotheby’s, Important Drawings by the Old Masters and Masters of the English School Removed from Warwick Castle and sold by Order of The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Warwick, and of the Trustees of the late (6th) Earl of Warwick, 17 June 1936, probably lot 148 (A Parcel of water-colours of Scenes in Italy, etc. (32)]; [Walker’s Gallery London, 1936]; [check Walker’s 33rd sale June 28, 1937]; [Walker’s Galleries, London, 56th Annual Exhibition of Early English Water-Colours, May 17, 1960, Cat. 108]; purchased by Walter Augustus Brandt (1902-1978)1; by descent to 2023; [Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd., London, 2023]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.

1The scion of a successful German banking family established Britain since the early 1800s, Brandt started collecting in the 1940s and began buying in earnest towards the end of the 1950s, after which time he acquired drawings almost continually until his death. Though initially focused on contemporary art, Brandt grew increasingly interested in earlier work, and he eventually amassed one of the finest, most extensive collections of British drawings dating from 1650 to 1850; in particular, Brandt was a pioneering collector of neoclassical and romantic drawings.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, Walker’s Galleries, 56th Annual Exhibition of Early English Water-Colours, exh. cat., May 16-June 28, 1960, Cat. 108.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: [none]
Verso: [inaccessible]
TBD, unidentified inscription under mount.

Verso [mount]: Stamp in ink, bottom left corner
TBD

Catalogue raisonnéNone

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