Live Auction 5696The Collection of the Late John Appleby: A Channel Island Treasure House
John Henry Matthiason (Bedford early 19th Century)
Lot 196

John Henry Matthiason (Bedford early 19th Century)

Elizabeth College, Guernsey

Closed4 November 2010

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GBP 4,375

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John Henry Matthiason (Bedford early 19th Century)
Elizabeth College, Guernsey
signed and dated 'J.H.Matthiason 1843' (lower right) and inscribed as titled
watercolour, on paper, unframed
14½ x 24 3/8in. (36.8 x 62cm.)

Specialist note

Matthiason attended Elizabeth College where his father was a master, from about 1843 to 1845. He became drawing-master at the College, but died at the age of twenty, being replaced by Paul Jacob Naftel.