Peter DE WINT
Horses and Figures on a Riverside Path
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Horses and Figures on a Riverside Path
In his seminal book Water-colour Painting in Britain, published in 1967, Martin Hardie noted that ‘De Wint is one of the great technicians of water-colour, one of those who can make colour luminous and keep his darks transparent and sparkling. No artist has interpreted the richness of English landscape with a more sympathetic mind and a more responsive hand…No other painter has ever put on paper with more effect that touch of fine colour from a full-flowing brush, which, as it dries out, transparent and rich in bloom, is the essence of the art of water-colour.’
More recently, the scholar Anne Lyles has written that ‘Together with J. M. W. Turner and David Cox, Peter De Wint is a key figure in British watercolor painting in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. He brought to the medium a new fluidity of handling, a rich warmth of palette, and an instinctive boldness and simplicity of composition.’
More recently, the scholar Anne Lyles has written that ‘Together with J. M. W. Turner and David Cox, Peter De Wint is a key figure in British watercolor painting in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. He brought to the medium a new fluidity of handling, a rich warmth of palette, and an instinctive boldness and simplicity of composition.’
Provenance: The Warde collection, and by descent to Mark and Lucianne Warde-Norbury, Hooton Pagnell Hall, nr. Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Their sale (‘Hooton Pagnell Hall: 300 Years of Collecting’), London, Bonham’s Knightsbridge, 1 December 2015, lot 191
Martyn Gregory, London.
Exhibition: London, Martyn Gregory, An Exhibition of British Watercolours and Drawings 1750 to 1900, 2016, no.26.
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