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Samuel Palmer(London 1805-1881 Redhill)La Vocatella near Corpo di Cava, Italy
3 July 2024, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£7,000 - £10,000
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Samuel Palmer (London 1805-1881 Redhill)
La Vocatella near Corpo di Cava, Italy
watercolour over pencil, heightened with bodycolour and scratching out on wove paper
26.7 x 37.8cm (10 1/2 x 14 7/8in).
watercolour over pencil, heightened with bodycolour and scratching out on wove paper
26.7 x 37.8cm (10 1/2 x 14 7/8in).
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Provenance
With Fulda Gallery, Salford, where acquired by
With Agnew's, London, 2002
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 23 November 2006, lot 245
With W.S. Fine Art, London
Andrew Wyld: Connoisseur Dealer sale, Christie's, London, 10 July 2012, lot 147
The Collection of Timothy Clowes, UK, by whose executors offered
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 23 September 2021, lot 147, where purchased by the present owner
Palmer married Hannah Linnell, the eldest of John Linnell's children, in September of 1837, and a month later they left for an extended trip to Italy in the company of Palmer's close friend, George Richmond, with his wife and small boy. The group travelled through France and northern Italy, arriving in Rome in November where they spent the winter. In the spring of 1838, the Richmonds went north to Florence and the Palmers headed south to Naples and beyond, exploring the coast further south where they were to spend the summer and autumn only returning to Rome in October. They stayed at an inn at Corpo di Cava, a hamlet between Amalfi and Salerno, where their lodgings overlooked a Benedictine monastery. Palmer wrote in his notes that La Vocatella, the subject of the present work, was a chapel built by a hermit close to their lodgings.
The strong southern light was to have a lasting effect on Palmer and his palette became increasingly vibrant during his Italian sojourn. To Hannah's sister he wrote of the 'rich costumes, cities and villages cresting the hills and precipices; and this heavenly sunshine and atmosphere'.
Another view of La Vocatella of similar size by Palmer is in the collection of the Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.
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