Live Auction 5688Old Master & Early British Drawings and Watercolours
Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)
Lot 145

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

Seaweed gatherers on the shore at Redcar, Yorkshire

Closed3 July 2012

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Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)
Seaweed gatherers on the shore at Redcar, Yorkshire
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out
5 7/8 x 12 5/8 in .(15 x 32 cm.)

H.J. Tomkins; Christie's, London, 15 April 1932, lot 145 (10 gns to MacDonald).
Walter D. Hetherington; Christie's, London, 14 February 1978, lot 128.
with Agnew's, London, 1990.
with Andrew Wyld, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

Formerly entitled 'Shrimpers on a Beach', the present watercolour was identified following the appearance of a closely related composition bearing an inscription 'Redcar' on the reverse. In 1838 De Wint exhibited a View on the Beach at Redcar, looking towards Huncliff at the Old Water-Colour Society, no. 269. It seems likely the artist made a tour of Yorkshire in the summer of 1837 as the 1838 exhibition included a total of five Yorkshire subjects. His other exhibits that year suggest he probably crossed over from Cumbria, where he must have been visiting Lowther Castle, seat of his patron the Earl of Lonsdale.