Live Auction 8012Lyons Demesne Works of Art from The Collection of The Late Dr. Tony Ryan
Attributed to Thomas Mitchell (1735-1790)
Lot 415

Attributed to Thomas Mitchell (1735-1790)

A coastal landscape with a classical house, a couple with a child in the foreground with an artist sketching, shipping at sea

Closed14 July 2011

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GBP 16,250

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Attributed to Thomas Mitchell (1735-1790)
A coastal landscape with a classical house, a couple with a child in the foreground with an artist sketching, shipping at sea
oil on canvas
46 x 74½ in. (116.8 x 189.2 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's London, 21 May 1998, lot 219 (£18,975).

Specialist note

The painting has traditionally been identified as a view of Downhill, County Derry, with the Mussenden Temple constructed by Frederick Henry, 4th Earl of Bristol in 1785.