Working in the Ricks Yard, Wellings Farm, Paddington
Working in the Ricks Yard, Wellings Farm, Paddington
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Working in the Ricks Yard, Wellings Farm, PaddingtonInscribed with title on old label attached to the backboardWatercolour over pencil23.5 by 33 cm., 9 ¼ by 13 in.Provenance:Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, 13th November 1980, lot 196Willan's Farm, or Marylebone Park Farm, was in the possession of Thomas Willan (c.1755-1828) of Twyford Abbey, Ealing, in the early nineteenth century. He was a stagecoach proprietor of the Bull and Mouth Inn near Aldergate. The large dairy farm covered 288 acres and stood in the south-west corner of what is now Regents Park and had between 800 and 1,000 cows.){kind=link}
David Cox (1783-1859)
Working in the Ricks Yard, Wellings Farm, Paddington
Inscribed with title on old label attached to the backboard
Watercolour over pencil
23.5 by 33 cm., 9 ¼ by 13 in.
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, 13th November 1980, lot 196
Willan's Farm, or Marylebone Park Farm, was in the possession of Thomas Willan (c.1755-1828) of Twyford Abbey, Ealing, in the early nineteenth century. He was a stagecoach proprietor of the Bull and Mouth Inn near Aldergate. The large dairy farm covered 288 acres and stood in the south-west corner of what is now Regents Park and had between 800 and 1,000 cows.