Barns in a yard
Maker
(artist)
1757-1823
1757-1823
Title
Barns in a yard
Accession Number
D.2024.ST.3
Mode of Acquisition
The Spooner Charitable Trust, gift, 2024
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Gift of the Spooner Charitable Trust, 2024.
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Label Text
The painter, topographical draughtsman and aquatint engraver Charles Tomkins (1757-1823) spent his entire career in London, although he travelled within Britain in search of his subjects. This is one of a pair of oval watercolours (the other, also in The Courtauld's collection, is D.2024.ST.2) of a rural scene that dates from very early in his career, when the artist was in his early 20s, which depicts a country inn and the barns in the yard presumably behind the same inn.
Provenance
Abbott & Holder, London by 2023; where purchased by the donor; gift to the Samuel Courtauld Trust, 2024.
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