William Taverner
A woodland landscape
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July 6, 01:20 PM GMT
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500 - 800 GBP
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William Taverner
London 1700-1772
A woodland landscape
Watercolour on laid paper;
signed lower left: Taverner del
201 by 317 mm
William Taverner worked as a lawyer for the Archbishop of Canterbury. Despite his amateur status, he was highly respected as a watercolourist. George Vertue described him in 1733 as possessing 'a wonderful genius to drawing of Landskap [sic]'1 and in 1966 Martin Hardie considered him to be 'our first regular and systematic painter of free landscape in watercolour.2
1. 'Vertue Note Books', Walpole Society, 1933-1934, p. 68
2. Martin Hardie, Water-colour Painting in Britain, vol. 1, 1966, p. 69
1. 'Vertue Note Books', Walpole Society, 1933-1934, p. 68
2. Martin Hardie, Water-colour Painting in Britain, vol. 1, 1966, p. 69
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