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Windsor Castle from the river

Maker

(artist)
1728-1784

Title

Date of Production

1700s

Medium

graphite, point of brush and brown wash, watercolour, with scratching out, on laid paper, laid down on a modern secondary support

Dimensions

Height: 34.8 cm
Width: 52 cm

Accession Number

D.2022.ST.1

Mode of Acquisition

The Spooner Charitable Trust, gift, 2022

Credit

The Courtauld (Samuel Courtauld Trust), London

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Label Text

A solicitor who worked for the Covent Garden Theatre, Thomas Theodosius Forrest was also a talented amateur artist, specialising in landscape, who trained with George Lambert (1700-1764) and later took drawing lessons with Paul Sandby, who remained a close friend and important influence; he exhibited at the Royal Academy annually from 1762-1781.

This ambitious and highly finished view of Windsor Castle bears witness to Sandby’s influence, in terms of both subject matter and the delicate ‘stained drawing’ technique and restricted palette

Notes

The influence of Paul and Thomas Sandby is evident in Forrest’s use of watercolour, particularly in washes of colour with undefined borders.

Provenance

Nigel Jacques; Abbot & Holder, London; purchased there by the Spooner Trust, 2021; gift of the Spooner Trust, 2022

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: Strasburg lily / GR (variant of Heawood 1849, no location or date given).

Secondary support, Verso: lower right, graphite, circled: 969; lower right, graphite: KO7277.

Collector's mark: none.

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