Live Auction 21459Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours
SAMUEL OWEN (? 1768-1857 SUNBURY-ON-THAMES)
Lot 127

SAMUEL OWEN (? 1768-1857 SUNBURY-ON-THAMES)

Shipping off Mont St Michel, Normandy

Closed4 July 2023

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GBP 1,512

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SAMUEL OWEN (? 1768-1857 SUNBURY-ON-THAMES)
Shipping off Mont St Michel, Normandy
signed 'S OWEN.' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour with scratching out
7 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. (19 x 14.4 cm.)

with J. Morton Lee, Hayling Island.

Specialist note

Samuel Owen was a marine painter who approached his work with the Romantic viewpoint more closely associated with landscape artists of the period than marine artists. The present drawing is one such example, with its dramatic composition and atmospheric weather.