Live Auction 5859Old Masters & 19th Century Art
Christie’s roundel
Lot 105

William Groombridge (Tunbridge 1748-1811 Baltimore)

An extensive river landscape with a fishermen on the banks, a town beyond

Closed28 October 2009

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GBP 16,250

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William Groombridge (Tunbridge 1748-1811 Baltimore)
An extensive river landscape with a fishermen on the banks, a town beyond
indistinctly signed and dated 'W. Groombridge Pinxt London 1782' (lower left, on the cliff-face)
oil on canvas
30 x 49¾ in. (76.3 x 126.5 cm.)

Specialist note

William Groombridge was born in Tunbridge, Kent, and was most famous for his Kentish landscapes and miniatures. Little is recorded of his education, although it is known he was a pupil of James Lambert. Until 1790 he was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, London. By 1793, he was recorded in New York from where he moved to Philadelphia in 1794, and founded the Columbian Art Academy. He moved to Baltimore in 1804 where he died in 1811.