Live Auction 7783Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours Day Sale
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Lot 228 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)

Cookham-on-Thames, Berkshire

Closed9 December 2009

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GBP 10,000

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Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)
Cookham-on-Thames, Berkshire
watercolour with scratching out on paper
12½ x 19¼ in. (31.8 x 49 cm.)

Lady Muir-MacKenzie.
with Agnew's, London, by 1971.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 November 2005, lot 55.
with The Bourne Gallery, Surrey, where purchased by the present owner.

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Visit www.christies.com for additional information on this lot. Cookham-on-Thames was a popular subject for de Wint. Between 1814 and 1829 he executed thirteen drawings for W.B. Cooke's Thames Scenery and it was probably during this period that the present work was executed.