Graham Reed Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1880s.
He remained in Alnwick for 11 years building up a considerable clientele for his works.His patrons whilst in Alnwick included the Duke of Northumberland,and the printer William Davison who issued many engravings of his work. He exhibited at the Suffolk Street Gallery,the Carlisle Athenaeum,the North of England Society for the promotion of Fine Arts and the Government School of Design. In 1854 he moved to Dickensian of New Bond Street as an artist and drawing teacher.After leaving Dickinson he devoted himself to painting and teaching members of the nobility’s children. He is represented at the Victoria and Albert Museum,the Fitzwilliam Museum,Cambridge,the National Museum of Wales and the Laing Gallery. ‘Continental River Landscape,possibly the Rhine ‘ signed watercolour dated 1880,image size 55x106 cms,framed size 70x121cms.Housed in original decorative gilt frame which has been reglazed with True Vue Museum Glass.A large and most impressive watercolour.
Graham Reed Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1880s.
Previously I worked in london as a chartered surveyor and have been dealing in paintings for nearly thirty years.
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James Burrell Smith Watercolour ‘Continental River Landscape ,Possibly the Rhine’
