Henley Street Antiques has dated this William Collins Watercolour Painting to the 19th Century.
He was a contemporary fellow artist of Constable and Turner whose financial value he at times succeeded.
This watercolour sketch possibly depicts a Norfolk Coastal Scene made during his 1815 sketching tour of the Norfolk Coast. There is a very interesting caption on the reverse of the frame:
From the collection of Mr. J. Erxleben, who was for 50 years associated with Professor Sir Richard Owen, as his draughtsman and lithographer, and was a lifelong intimate friend of the late Louis Hughe P.R.I.
Erxleben was a renown Dutch/German Victorian lithographer and did numerous works as a draughtsman and lithographer for the anatomist and palaeontologist Richard Owen (1804-1892) who was a good friend of Charles Darwin.
The frame measures ca 29 cm x 21 cm.
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Henley Street Antiques has dated this William Collins Watercolour Painting to the 19th Century.
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Watercolour, William Collins RA (1788-1847)
