Live Auction 6574Andrew Wyld: Connoisseur Dealer
Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)
Lot 87

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

View from the Lion Bridge at Burghley, Rutland (recto); and Extensive landscape with trees (verso)

Closed10 July 2012

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GBP 3,500

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Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)
View from the Lion Bridge at Burghley, Rutland (recto); and Extensive landscape with trees (verso)
watercolour on paper
6¼ x 9 5/8 in. (15.9 x 24.3 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 November 1997, lot 81.
with Spink Leger, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 June 2003, lot 59.

Specialist note

The present view is taken from the Lion Bridge at the west end of the lake at Burghley House. The park and lake were the creation of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, who laid out the grounds for the 9th Earl of Exeter in 1775. The present watercolour is unusual in that de Wint has captured not only the mood and atmosphere of a locality with his fluid brush strokes, but has also chosen to depict the exact topography of a view.
We are grateful to John Ellis for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.