A Barn, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A Barn, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A Barn, Tunbridge Wells, KentSigned with initials lower left: Tunbridge Wells/JM 1847Watercolour over traces of pencil32.7 by 48.2 cm., 12 3/4 by 19 in.Provenance:Private Collection, UKMiddleton's tour of Kent in 1847 produced `a number of his best free watercolour landscapes' (see Andrew Wilton and Annie Lyles, The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880, 1993, p.318). Andrew Moore observed that `1847 proved to be the annus mirabilis of Middleton's life and career' (Andrew Moore, The Norwich School of Artists, 1985, p.144).Middleton almost certainly accompanied his pupil Henry Bright (1810-1873) on a tour of Kent in the summer of 1847. Two Tunbridge Wells views by Bright are in the Castle Museum, Norwich as well as a watercolour by Middleton with the same inscription and date as the present work.){kind=link}
John Middleton (1827-1856)
A Barn, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Signed with initials lower left: Tunbridge Wells/JM 1847
Watercolour over traces of pencil
32.7 by 48.2 cm., 12 3/4 by 19 in.
Provenance:
Private Collection, UK
Middleton's tour of Kent in 1847 produced `a number of his best free watercolour landscapes' (see Andrew Wilton and Annie Lyles, The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880, 1993, p.318). Andrew Moore observed that `1847 proved to be the annus mirabilis of Middleton's life and career' (Andrew Moore, The Norwich School of Artists, 1985, p.144).
Middleton almost certainly accompanied his pupil Henry Bright (1810-1873) on a tour of Kent in the summer of 1847. Two Tunbridge Wells views by Bright are in the Castle Museum, Norwich as well as a watercolour by Middleton with the same inscription and date as the present work.
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