Live Auction 5688Old Master & Early British Drawings and Watercolours
Samuel Palmer, R.W.S. (London 1805-1881)
Lot 167

Samuel Palmer, R.W.S. (London 1805-1881)

The Bay of Baiae from Monte Nuovo, Italy

Closed3 July 2012

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Samuel Palmer, R.W.S. (London 1805-1881)
The Bay of Baiae from Monte Nuovo, Italy
inscribed and numbered 'Bay of Baiae/No 3' (verso) and further signed, inscribed and numbered 'No. 7 The Bay of Baiae from Monte Nuovo/Samuel Palmer/4 Grove.../Marylebone Street, Lisson Grove; Marylebone' (on a label attached to the original backboard, according to previous cataloguing)
pencil and watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic
5¾ x 15 5/8 in. (14.6 x 39.7 cm.)

Cecil Mason.
Mrs S. Andreozzi; Sotheby's, London, 16 March 1978, lot 132.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 17 November 1988, lot 172.
with Agnew's, London.

Specialist note

On 30 September 1837 Palmer married Hannah Linnell the eldest of John Linnell's nine children. They departed on their Italian honeymoon on 4 October in the company of George and Julia Richmond and their son. They returned to England in late November 1839. Palmer painted a view in oils of The Bay of Baiae, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1841, no. 1197. Lister, loc.cit., dates the present watercolour to 1841. Like his Royal Academy exhibition piece, it would have been based on sketches made during Palmer's visit to Italy.