Dover from the East Cliff
Dover from the East Cliff
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Dover from the East CliffSigned lower right: T.L. Rowbotham/1854Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour26.3 by 52.9cm., 10 ¼ by 21 in.Provenance:Bought by the present owner's grandfather at the New Watercolour Society, 1854Exhibited:London, New Watercolour Society, 1854This is a exceptional early examples of Rowbotham's work. His father Thomas Leeson Rowbotham (1782-1853) was a well-known Bristol artist who taught his son to draw at an early age. He made his first sketching tour, to Wales, in 1847 and he exhibited at the New Watercolour Society from 1848. He succeeded his father as drawing master at the Royal Naval School, Greenwich. His later works are mainly of Italian Lake views and lack originality.){kind=link}
Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham (1823-1875)
Dover from the East Cliff
Signed lower right: T.L. Rowbotham/1854
Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour
26.3 by 52.9cm., 10 ¼ by 21 in.
Provenance:
Bought by the present owner's grandfather at the New Watercolour Society, 1854
Exhibited:
London, New Watercolour Society, 1854
This is a exceptional early examples of Rowbotham's work. His father Thomas Leeson Rowbotham (1782-1853) was a well-known Bristol artist who taught his son to draw at an early age. He made his first sketching tour, to Wales, in 1847 and he exhibited at the New Watercolour Society from 1848. He succeeded his father as drawing master at the Royal Naval School, Greenwich. His later works are mainly of Italian Lake views and lack originality.