Polly Cornthwaite
Senior Cataloguer
Lot 153
John Brett, ARA(British, 1831-1902)'Welsh Coast'
25 – 26 October 2022, 14:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,550 inc. premium
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Head of Sale
John Brett, ARA (British, 1831-1902)
'Welsh Coast'
incised inscription and date 'Welsh Coast 21 July 91' (lower right); bears signature 'John Brett' (on canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
17.8 x 35.6cm (7 x 14in).
incised inscription and date 'Welsh Coast 21 July 91' (lower right); bears signature 'John Brett' (on canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
17.8 x 35.6cm (7 x 14in).
Footnotes
Provenance
John Brett Studio Sale, Christie's, London, 15 February 1902, lot 21.
Meadows (purchased from the above for 71/2 guineas).
Anon. sale, Bonhams, London, 16 September 1971, lot 157 as a pair with lot 154.
With The Old Customs House, Hampshire (purchased from the above sale).
Private collection, UK (purchased from the above as a pair with lot 154 in 1972).
Literature
D. Brook-Hart, British 19th Century Marine Painting, Suffolk, 1974, p.142, pl. 41.
C. Payne, John Brett, Yale, 201, p. 237, cat no. 1360.
This study of sea and sky depicts Cardigan Bay seen from the cliffs above the village of Aberporth, where Brett spent three months from the beginning of July 1891. Although unimpressed with the village itself, which he described as "this god-forsaken hole", he found plenty of suitable material in the surrounding area, which enabled him to paint nearly thirty oil sketches and begin three larger works while there.
We are grateful to Mr Charles Brett for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.