Attributed to Lt Col Thomas Ditmas 1845 Original Early 19th Century Signed Antique Watercolour Painting Hornsea Church East Yorkshire Landscape

Type of artwork: Original Watercolour Painting

Surface: Paper

Artist and Signature: Signed T Ditmas, Attributed to Lt Col Thomas Ditmas (1806–1885, India Artillery)

Subject: Lovely view of Hornsea Church from a distance

Approximate age of artwork: Dated 1845

Is the artwork Framed or Mounted: Mounted on card, unframed.

Condition Report: The watercolour shows expected age toning with some handling marks, but retains excellent colour and detail. Please examine photographs closely for condition.

Size of painting (visible area): 14 x 8 cm

Artist Biography: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Ditmas (1806–1885) was a career officer in the Honourable East India Company’s Bengal Artillery, later serving under the British Indian Army. Commissioned in the 1820s, he rose to senior rank and spent many years stationed in India, where he recorded landscapes, architecture and floral studies in watercolour and on rice paper. His works from the 1830s–40s are rare survivals of the period, bridging Company School traditions with a personal officer’s eye. Ditmas retired to York, where his descendants, including Colonel Harold Percy Ditmas (1853–1937), continued the family’s military and artistic traditions.

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